Cowboy graves : three novellas

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Cowboy graves : three novellas

Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Natasha Wimmer

(Penguin books, . Fiction)

Penguin, 2022, c2021

  • : pbk

Other Title

Sepulcros de vaqueros

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Note

"Originally published in Spanish as Sepulcros de vaqueros by Alfaguara, Madrid, 2017"--T.p. verso

Contents of Works

  • Cowboy graves
  • French comedy of horrors
  • Fatherland

Description and Table of Contents

Description

One more journey to the universe of Roberto Bolano, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literature Cowboy Graves is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent. Roberto Bolano's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into fiction is unmistakable in these three novellas. In "Cowboy Graves," Arturo Belano--Bolano's alter ego--returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades for socialism. "French Comedy of Horrors" takes the reader to French Guiana on the night after an eclipse where a seventeen year old answers a pay phone and finds himself recruited into the Clandestine Surrealist Group, a secret society of artists based in the sewers of Paris. And in "Fatherland," a young poet reckons with the fascist overthrow of his country, as the woman he is obsessed with disappears in the ensuing violence and a Third Reich fighter plane mysteriously writes her poetry in the sky overhead. These three fiercely original tales bear the signatures of Bolano's extraordinary body of work, echoing the strange characters and uncanny scenes of his triumphs, while deepening our reverence for his gifts.

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Details

  • NCID
    BC13890033
  • ISBN
    • 9780735222908
  • LCCN
    2020022795
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    spa
  • Place of Publication
    [New York]
  • Pages/Volumes
    195 p.
  • Size
    21 cm
  • Classification
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