Una clave mas del universo literario de Roberto Bolano, uno de los escritores imprescindibles de la literatura contemporanea en espanol
Este volumen incluye tres nouvelles ineditas - Patria , Sepulcros de vaqueros y Comedia del horror de Francia - en las que esta presente lo mejor del genio literario del autor chileno: el Mal, la violencia, la historia, la literatura, la ironia, Mexico, Chile, el amor, el suspense, la busqueda… a lo que se suma alguno de sus personajes mas celebres, como el ubicuo detective salvaje Arturo Belano.
Hablar de las novelas y los cuentos de Roberto Bolano como fragmentarios resulta parcial, puesto que cada fragmento depende de una unidad en constante movimiento, en un verdadero proceso de creacion que es al mismo tiempo consolidacion de un universo. (…) La imaginacion desbordada, la intensidad de los sentimientos, la incisiva critica, la febril actividad o los extranos personajes hacen de Sepulcros de vaqueros un libro enormemente atractivo y original.
Del prologo de Juan Antonio Masoliver Rodenas
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
One more journey to the universe of Roberto Bolano, an
essential voice of contemporary Latin American literature
Cowboy Graves is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary
talent. Roberto Bolano’s boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible
gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into fiction is unmistakable in
these three novellas. In Cowboy Graves, Arturo Belano–Bolano’s
alter ego–returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades for
socialism. French Comedy of Horrors, takes the reader to French
Guiana on the night after an eclipse where a seventeen year old answers a pay
phone and finds himself recruited into the Clandestine Surrealist Group, a
secret society of artists based in the sewers of Paris. And in
Fatherland, a young poet reckons with the fascist overthrow of
his country, as the woman he is obsessed with disappears in the ensuing
violence and a Third Reich fighter plane mysteriously writes her poetry in
the sky overhead.
These three fiercely original tales bear the signatures of Bolano’s
extraordinary body of work, echoing the strange characters and uncanny scenes
of his triumphs, while deepening our reverence for his gifts.
