The Insufferable Gaucho

A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolano'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 work he's plagiarized for years, finally fall into confrontation.Unpredictable and daring, highly controlled and yet somehow haywire, the five short stories included in The Insufferable Gaucho are some of Roberto Bolano's best. In addition, two essays are included- provocative and often scathing, they too are alive with Bolano's trademark humour, violence and utter faith in the power of the written word.TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS'An exemplary literary rebel' New York Review of Books'A master of the short form' Independent'Bolano wrote with the high-voltage first-person braininess of a Saul Bellow and an extreme subversive vision of his own' New York Times

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 Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile in 1953 and died in Catalonia in 2003. He was widely regarded as the essential Latin American writer of our age. He was best known for his novels (including The Savage Detectives, which won a number of prestigious literary awards, Nocturno de Chile, translated as By Night in Chile, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award) and his short stories, first published in English in Last Evenings on Earth.

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