Roberto Bolano - Böcker

Fyra litteraturvetare på jakt efter den mystiskt försvunne författaren Benno von Archimboldi; en mentalt instabil filosofilärare som hör röster och försöker skydda sin dotter från världens ondska; en sportjournalist som ställs öga mot öga med döde...

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Santa Teresa, on the Mexico-US border: an urban sprawl that draws lost souls to it like a vortex. Convicts and academics find themselves here, as does an American sportswriter, a teenage student with her widowed father, and a reclusive, 'missing' ...

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New Year's Eve, 1975. Two hunted men leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the mythical, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. But, twenty years later, they are still on the run. The Savage Detectives is their remarkab...

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Told in a delirious monologue, By Night in Chile is the final testimony of Sebastián Urrutia Lacroix--Chilean priest and member of Opus Dei, eminent literary critic and failed poet--as he is haunted by a shadowy figure known as the wizened youth. ...

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Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix is dying. A priest, a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a poet, in his feverish delirium the crucial events of his past swell around him. From glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German writer Erns...

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Vid sidan av de stora verken 2666 och De vilda detektiverna skrev Roberto Bolaño också kortromaner. Isrinken (1993) och Avlägsen stjärna (1996) kretsar båda kring gåtfulla centralgestalter; den åtrådda isprinsessan Nuria Martí, samt den poetiske C...

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"Antwerp's" signature elements--crimes and campgrounds, drifters and poetry, sex and love, corrupt cops and misfits--mark this, his first novel, as pure Bolao. A elegantly produced, small collectible stamped cover-on-cloth edition.

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Vid sidan av de stora verken 2666 och De vilda detektiverna skrev Roberto Bolaño också kortromaner. Isrinken (1993) och Avlägsen stjärna (1996) kretsar båda kring gåtfulla centralgestalter; den åtrådda isprinsessan Nuria Martí, samt den poetiske C...

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ROBERTO BOLANO föddes 1953 i Chile och dog 50 år gammal på ett sjukhus i Barcelona i väntan på en levertransplantation. Han var redan då en av den spanskspråkiga världens mest ryktbara författare, men det stora internationella genombrottet kom för...

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Mass-murdering authors. Writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring. A pilot who crafts his poetry in the sky. A tour de force of black humour and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionar...

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"Ahora no hay tiempo para aburrirse, la felicidad desapareció en algún lugar de la tierra y solo queda el asombro". Putas asesinas es el último libro de cuentos publicado en vida de Roberto Bolaño. Escritos con el estilo inconfundible ...

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Den chilenske författaren Roberto Bolaño skapade under sin livstid en romanvärld med helt egna lagar, hallucinatorisk och skrämmande autentisk på en gång, där moståndet mot övergrepp och politiskt våld utgör själva bränslet i prosan. Inte minst ha...

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Three academics on the trail of a reclusive German author; a New York reporter on his first Mexican assignment; a widowed philosopher; a police detective in love with an elusive older woman--these are among the searchers drawn to the border city o...

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Originally published: Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, c1996.

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Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, suffering from a fever and fearing that he is dying, recalls the most important events in his life, from Paris in 1943 to Chile under General Pinochet.

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Udo Berger, a failed writer, travels to a small resort on Spain's Costa Brava, where he befriends another German couple. But when one of his friends disappears after a night out with two sinister local characters, Udo's serene life is disrupted.

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This dazzling novel that established Bolano's international reputation is the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through their darkening world.

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Featuring several mass-murdering authors, two fraternal writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring and a poet who crafts his lines in the air with sky writing, Roberto Bolaño's Nazi Literature in the Americas details the lives of a rich cast ...

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« Amuleto es una obra menor, intimista, con una voz delirante que no ofrece contrapuntos, o que ofrece pocos contrapuntos. Es una obra de cámara o de un solo instrumento. Eso sí de un solo instrumento, pero para alguien que sepa dar el callo...

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Descrita por el propio autor como "una obra policíaca, aunque no lo parezca", Amberes fue redactada veintidós años antes de su primera publicación en 2002, y descubre al Roberto Bolaño más experimental y complejo. A caballo entre la narr...

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"Todos los relatos de uno de los mâas grandes escritores contemporâaneos en lengua espaänola."--Page 4 of cover.

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"Originalmente publicado en Espaäna por Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A., Barcelona, en 2017"--Copyright page.

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One more journey to the universe of Roberto Bolaño, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literature Cowboy Graves is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent. Roberto Bolaño's boundless imagination and seemingly...

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The star in this hair-raising novel is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an Air Force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup in Chile to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise that symbolizes the darkness of Pinochet's regime.

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Amulet is a monologue, like Bolaño's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile . The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becoming the "Mother of Mexican Poetry," hanging out with the youn...

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"The melancholy folklore of exile," as Roberto Bolaño once put it, pervades these fourteen haunting stories. Bolano's narrators are usually writers grappling with private (and generally unlucky) quests, who typically speak in the first p...

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A tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Composed of sho...

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Set in the seaside town of Z, on the Costa Brava, north of Barcelona, The Skating Rink oscillates between two poles: a camp ground and a ruined mansion, the Palacio Benvingut. The story, told by three male narrators, revolves around a beautiful fi...

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Paris, 1938. The Peruvian poet César Vallejo is in the hospital, afflicted with an undiagnosed illness, and unable to stop hiccuping. His wife calls on an acquaintance of her friend Madame Reynaud: the Mesmerist Pierre Pain. Pain, a timid bachelor...

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