"Varamo concerns a day in the life of a hapless government employee. After being paid by the ministry in counterfeit money, our unfortunate bureaucrat, Varamo, wanders around all night, then sits down and writes the most celebrated masterwork of modern Central American poetry, T…
"Varamo concerns a day in the life of a hapless government employee. After being paid by the ministry in counterfeit money, our unfortunate bureaucrat, Varamo, wanders around all night, then sits down and writes the most celebrated masterwork of modern Central American poetry, T…
Amulet is a monologue, like Bolaño's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile . The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becomingthe "Mother of Mexican Poetry," hanging out with the young poets in the cafes and bars of the Univer…
"Presents itself as an encyclopedia of extremely right-wing writers. Composed of short biographies of imaginary pan-American authors ... Nazi literature describes, in fourteen thematic sections, the writers' lives, politics, and literary works."--P. [4] of cover.
Nazi literature in the Americas
by Andrews, Chris, Bolaño, Roberto
fromNaval doctrine publication
A tour de force of black humor, composed of short biographies of imaginary pan-American authors, providing sketch character portraits that are often pathetically funny, sometimes surprisingly moving, and on occasion, authentically chilling.
A tour de force of black humor, composed of short biographies of imaginary pan-American authors, providing sketch character portraits that are often pathetically funny, sometimes surprisingly moving, and on occasion, authentically chilling.
Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953?2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed in contemporary fiction. Chris Andrews, a leading translator of Bolaño's work into English, explores the singular achievements of the author's oe…