The Insufferable Gaucho
$23.57
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
3 December 2024
Summary
A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño’s work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time.
‘If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear…’
A rat policeman comes to the startling realisation that each rat is out for themselves. An elderly judge gives up his job in the city for an improbable return to the family farm in the Pampas. An elusive film-maker and the little-known Argentinian novelist whose w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784879501 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1784879509 |
| Author: | Roberto Bolaño |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 3 December 2024 |
| Weight: | 142g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 131mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
A spellbinder * Newseek *
Roberto Bolaño was a game changer: his field was politics, poetry and melancholia … and his writing was always unparalleled * Mariana Enríquez *
We savour all he has written as every offering is a portal into the elaborate terrain of his genius – Patti Smith
Roberto Bolaño’s work is a sprawling labyrinth of surprise, bold invention, and images that will live with you forever – Chris Power
Roberto Bolaño was a flat-out genius, one of the greatest writers of our time. – Paul Auster
The triumphant posthumous entrance of Roberto Bolaño into the English-language literary firmament has been one of the sensations of the decade * Sunday Times *
Bolaño’s voice demands attention * The New Yorker *
It’s hard to think of a writer who has multiplied the possibilities more times than Roberto Bolaño. * Guardian *
Roberto Bolaño
Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealism poetry movement. Described by the New York Times as ‘the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation’, he was the author of over twenty works, including The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998, and 2666, which posthumously won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty, just as his writing found global recognition.
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