The Spirit of Science Fiction
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- 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: | 198mm x 130mm x 13mm |
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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 timeRoberto Bolaño continues to cast a spellRoberto Bolaño’s books are volcanic, perilous, charged with infectious erotic energy and demonic lucidity
About The Author
Roberto Bolaño
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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