Between Parentheses (First Edition)

Bolano, Roberto

ISBN 10: 0811218147 / ISBN 13: 9780811218146

Edité par New Directions, New York, 2011

New York: New Directions [2011]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. AS NEW. issued without dust jacket. Shipped in well padded box. A tight clean copy. 352 pp. A collection of essays, speeches, and columns written between 1998 and 2003, offering insight into Bolaño s views on literature, politics, and Latin American culture. Translated from the Spanish ("Entre paréntesis") by Natasha Wimmer. N° de réf. du vendeur Rear-Lit-Bolano

Synopsis :

Between Parentheses collects most of the newspaper columns and articles Bolano wrote during the last five years of his life, as well as the texts of some of his speeches and talks and a few scattered prologues. "Taken together," as the editor Ignacio Echevarría remarks in his introduction, they provide "a personal cartography of the writer: the closest thing, among all his writings, to a kind of fragmented 'autobiography.'" Bolano's career as a nonfiction writer began in 1998, the year he became famous overnight for The Savage Detectives; he was suddenly in demand for articles and speeches, and he took to this new vocation like a duck to water. Cantankerous, irreverent, and insufferably opinionated, Bolano also could be tender (about his family and favorite places) as well as a fierce advocate for his heroes (Borges, Cortázar, Parra) and his favorite contemporaries, whose books he read assiduously and promoted generously. A demanding critic, he declares that in his "ideal literary kitchen there lives a warrior" he argues for courage, and especially for bravery in the face of failure. Between Parentheses fully lives up to his own demands: "I ask for creativity from literary criticism, creativity at all levels."

À propos des auteurs: Author of 2666 and many other acclaimed works, Roberto Bolano (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 bibliographiques

Titre : Between Parentheses (First Edition)
Éditeur : New Directions, New York
Date d'édition : 2011
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : Comme neuf
Etat de la jaquette : Pas de jaquette
Edition : Edition originale