The Spirit of Science Fiction
$23.64
- Paperback
208 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.
Two young poets, Jan and Remo, find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life in the literary world. But as close as these friends are, the city tugs them in opposite directions.
Jan withdraws from the world, shutting himself in their shared rooftop apartment where he feverishl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784879549 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784879541 |
| Author: | Roberto Bolaño |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 3 December 2024 |
| Weight: | 152g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 130mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
A gem-choked puzzle of a book * New York Times *
The novel is dappled with recognizably Bolañan pleasures * Paris Review *
Irresistible. * Telegraph *
[A]n entertaining, lyrical and accomplished novel. * Wall Street Journal *
Bolaño is the writer who opened a new vein for 21st Century literature… Vivacious and weird and madly alive again.
Roberto Bolaño was a flat-out genius, one of the greatest writers of our time
Roberto Bolaño continues to cast a spell
Roberto Bolaño’s books are volcanic, perilous, charged with infectious erotic energy and demonic lucidity
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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