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The Third Reich by Roberto Bolano
Category: Fiction
Udo Berger, aspiring writer and wargames champion of Stuttgart, decides it is time to take his new love, Ingeborg, on holiday to the Costa Brava. He brings along his new game, The Third Reich, which he plans to practice for the upcoming wargames tournament in Paris, where he will finally meet the sleek ...Show more
The Unknown University by Roberto Bolano
Category: Poetry
Perhaps surprisingly to some of his fiction fans, Roberto Bolano touted poetry as the superior art form, able to approach an infinity in which you become infinitely small without disappearing. When asked, What makes you believe you re a better poet than a novelist? Bolano replied, The poetry makes me bl ...Show more
The Unknown University by Roberto Bolano
Category: Poetry
Perhaps surprisingly to some of his fiction fans, Roberto Bolano touted poetry as the superior art form. When asked, 'What makes you believe you're a better poet than a novelist?' Bolano replied, 'The poetry makes me blush less'. In 1993, fearing for his health, Bolano began collecting the poetry he had ...Show more
Tres by Roberto Bolano
Category: Fiction
Roberto Bolano's own preferred literary persona was as a poet and Tres is his most inventive and bracing collection. As the title implies, the collection is composed of three sections. 'Prose from Autumn in Gerona', a cinematic series of prose poems, slowly reveals a subtle and emotional tale of unrequi ...Show more
Tres by Roberto Bolano
Category: Poetry
Roberto Bolan o s Tres is a showcase of the author s willingness to freely cross genres, with poems in prose, stories in verse, and flashes of writing that can hardly be categorized. As the title implies, the collection is composed of three sections. Prose from Autumn in Gerona, a cinematic series of pr ...Show more
Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolano
Category: Fiction
Crushed by a devastating scandal, university professor Oscar Amalfitano flees Barcelona for Santa Teresa -- a Mexican city close to the US border. In this sprawling town, where women are being killed in staggering numbers, Amalfitano begins an affair with Castillo, a young forger of Larry Rivers paintin ...Show more
Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolano
Category: Fiction
Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, "Woes of the True ""Policeman "is Roberto Bolano's last, unfinished novel. The novel follows Oscar Amalfitano--an exiled Chilean university professor and widower--through the maze of his revolutionary past, his relationship with his tee ...Show more
Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolano
Category: Fiction
Taking us back to the world and characters of his acclaimed masterpiece, 2666, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolano's last, unfinished, novel. When Oscar Amalfitano begins an impulsive affair with one of his students at the University of Barcelona, he has no idea where it will lead. More than ...Show more