Roberto Bolaňo Libri

«La prima volta che vidi Carlos Wieder fu nel 1971 o forse nel 1972 quando Allende era presidente del Cile». Chi è Carlos Wieder? È un poeta, un aviatore che scrive versi nel cielo, un killer di poeti, un torturatore, un fotografo surrealista delle vittime, e poi un fuggiasco in Europa, poeta d'avanguardia e forse operatore-assassino di film hard core criminali (quelli in cui si commettono omicidi). Questo è il racconto delle sue imprese, ma soprattutto della caccia condotta, dopo la caduta di Pinochet, da un vecchio poliziotto esiliato: e diventa un viaggio palpitante, seguito come una cronaca dal narratore, nelle diverse identità fittizie del poeta-torturatore. In un'intervista a proposito del suo primo libro tradotto in italiano (La letteratura nazista in America, una narrativa grottesca stranamente trascurata appena giunta in Italia) Roberto Bolaño dichiara il suo debito verso Borges e i suoi sogni letterari, e verso l'Alfonso Reyes delle Vite reali eimmaginarie. Sicché non è facile dire se Carlos Wieder sia un personaggio reale o immaginario. Viene da un incubo, e gli incubi - come sapevano Borges e Reyes - conservano un nucleo di verità più reale della realtà.

L’autore di 2666 e I detective selvaggi si racconta in questa collezione di interviste realizzate in un arco di cinque anni, che si conclude con la famosa «Ultima conversazione», pubblicata per la prima volta pochi giorni dopo la scomparsa dello scrittore. L’infanzia in Cile, l’adolescenza in Messico, l’Europa da uomo maturo; la presa di coscienza civile e politica, i primi tentativi di scrittura; le letture, le influenze e le amicizie; le cose che adora e le cose che gli danno fastidio: queste conversazioni ci permettono di addentrarci in una delle menti migliori del Novecento, un’intelligenza pirotecnica che continua a emanare scintille e ad abbagliare i lettori di tutto il mondo. Con un saggio di Nicola Lagioia.

This dazzling novel that established Bolano's international reputation is the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through their darkening world.

An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared.

With the release of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives in 1998,journalist Monica Maristain discovered a writer “capable of befriending his readers.” After exchanging several letters with Bolaño, Maristain formed a friendship of her own, culminating in an extensive interview with the novelist about truth and consequences, an interview that turned out to be Bolaño’s last. Appearing for the first time in English, Bolaño’s final interview is accompanied by a collection of conversations with reporters stationed throughout Latin America, providing a rich context for the work of the writer who, according to essayist Marcela Valdes, is “a T.S. Eliot or Virginia Woolf of Latin American letters.” As in all of Bolaño’s work, there is also wide-ranging discussion of the author’s many literary influences. (Explanatory notes on authors and titles that may be unfamiliar to English-language readers are included here.) The interviews, all of which were completed during the writing of the gigantic 2666, also address Bolaño’s deepest personal concerns, from his domestic life and two young children to the realities of a fatal disease.

Latin American poetry and revolutionary thoughts are narrated by the 'Mother of Mexican poetry' in Roberto Bolano's Amulet.

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life.

Follows Amalfitano, exiled Chilean university professor and widower with a teenage daughter, as his political disillusionment and love of poetry lead to the scandal that will force him to flee from Barcelona and take him to Santa Teresa, Mexico. It is here, in this border town, that Amalfitano meets Arcimboldi, a magician and writer whose work highlights the provisional and fragile nature of literature and life.

Found in the author's archive and published for the first time: a collection of three novellas - a joy for the many fans and followers of Roberto Bolano.

When Nuria Martí, the beautiful Spanish figure skater, is suddenly dropped from the Olympic team, a besotted admirer builds a secret ice rink for her in the ruins of an old mansion on the outskirts of their seaside town. What he doesn't tell her is that he paid for it using embezzled public funds. Such deceit is not without repercussions, and the skating rink soon becomes a crime scene... Rife with political corruption, sex, jealousy and frustrated passion, The Skating Rink - narrated in turn by a corrupt and pompous civil servant, a beleaguered romantic poet, and a duplicitous local entrepreneur - is a darkly atmospheric tale of murder and its motives.