Antwerp - Couverture souple

Bolaño, Roberto

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0811219917 ISBN 13 : 9780811219914

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2012

Synopsis

Written when he was only twenty-seven, Antwerp can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolaño's fictional universe. This novel presents the genesis of Bolaño's enterprise in prose; all the elements are here, highly compressed, at the moment when his talent explodes. From this springboard--which Bolaño chose to publish in 2002, twenty years after he'd written it ("and even that I can't be certain of")--as if testing out a high dive, he would plunge into the unexplored depths of the modern novel.

Voices speak from a dream, from a nightmare, from passersby, from an omniscient narrator, from "Roberto Bolaño." Antwerp's fractured narration in fifty-four sections moves in multiple directions and cuts to the bone.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Author of 2666 and many other acclaimed works, Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) was born in Santiago, Chile, and later lived in Mexico, Paris, and Spain. He has been acclaimed "by far the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time" (Ilan Stavans, The Los Angeles Times)," and as "the real thing and the rarest" (Susan Sontag). Among his many prizes are the extremely prestigious Herralde de Novela Award and the Premio Rómulo Gallegos. He was widely considered to be the greatest Latin American writer of his generation. He wrote nine novels, two story collections, and five books of poetry, before dying in July 2003 at the age of 50.

Natasha Wimmer's translation of Roberto Bolano's 2666 won the National Book Award's Best Novel of the Year as well as the PEN Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0811219917
• ISBN 13: 9780811219914
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible