Roberto Bolaño Knihy

Roberto Bolano napísal zvláštny román noir, v ktorom sa miešajú umenie, dejiny a teror. V ateliéri poézie, ktorý navštevuje rozprávač románu v provinčnom meste v Čile, sa objaví zvodný a záhadne odťažitý mladý muž. Pinochetov puč poskytne tomuto čudnému umelcovi príležitosť predviesť svoju radikálnu umeleckú koncepciu krutosti, keď zavraždí niekoľko žien za okolností, ktoré si ani čitateľ, ani rozprávač nedokážu predstaviť. Vzdialená hviezda je mrazivým skúmaním fašistickej mentality a hraníc zla podaným vo forme strhujúceho literárneho trileru.

„Teraz som matka a zároveň vydatá žena, no nie tak dávno som žila mimo zákon.“ Týmito slovami začína Bianca svoj príbeh o neľahkom – zločineckom – dospievaní v Ríme. Keď príde o rodičov, nechá školu, nájde si slabo platenú prácu a obklopí sa nesprávnou spoločnosťou. Keď jej mladší brat domov privedie dvoch zlodejíčkov, Bianca zistí, ako hlboko dokáže klesnúť. Lumpen románik je prekvapivým podobenstvom o tom, ako znovu získať moc nad vlastným životom.

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.

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.

Der Jahrhundertautor Roberto Bolaño entwirft in diesem unvergleichlichen Roman ein Schreckenskabinett der Welt und der Literatur. In dreißig fiktiven Lebensgeschichten süd- und nordamerikanischer Nazi-Schriftsteller streift er nicht nur finstere kulturelle und historische Realitäten, sondern skizziert zugleich eine ungeheuerliche und bizarre Parodie der Literaturgeschichte. Die Palette seltsamer Gestalten reicht vom Exzentriker und Clown bis hin zum Fanatiker und Wahnsinnigen, allesamt Zeugen von Bolaños unverwechselbarem Stil und seiner genialen Imaginationskraft.

Shortly after becoming the German war-games champion, Udo Berger and his girlfriend, Ingeborg, holiday on the Costa Brava. There they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, and a band of shady locals who introduce them to the darker side of life in the town. Then, late one night, Charly disappears without a trace, and Udoâe(tm)s well-ordered life is thrown into upheaval . . . Frightened, Udo refuses to leave, even after Ingeborg returns home, and his increasingly feverish dreams push him into delirium. As everything slips beyond his grasp, he attempts to re-assert himself by engaging the enigmatic and severely disfigured El Quemado âe" a foreigner who lives in a Spartan burrow on the beach âe" in a days-long match of his favourite war game, Third Reich. But, too late to stop the madness, he realizes that the consequences of this game are much more serious than he ever imagined. Combining the exhilaration of The Savage Detectives with the darkness of his later work, The Third Reich âe" Bolañoâe(tm)s first new novel since the epic 2666 âe" is a visceral book exploring memory, madness and violence. It is both the perfect way to discover the dazzling genius of Roberto Bolaño and an unmissable addition to the oeuvre for those who already have.

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.

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.