The Insufferable Gaucho
of Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews (Translator)
Description
As Pankaj Mishra remarked in The Nation, one of the remarkable qualities of Bolano's short stories is that they can do the "work of a novel." The Insufferable Gaucho contains tales bent on returning to haunt you. Unpredictable, daring, and highly controlled, yet somehow haywire, a Bolano story might concern an elusive plagiarist, or an elderly lawyer giving up city life for an improbable return to the family estate, now gone to wrack and ruin. Bolano's stories have been applauded as "bleakly luminous and perfectly calibrated" (Publishers Weekly) and"complex and provocative" (International Herald Tribune), and as Francine Prose said in The New York Times Book Review, "something extraordinarily beautiful and (at least to me) entirely new." Two fascinating essays are also included.
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 164 pages
- Publisher New Directions
- Publication Date August 31st 2010
- First Publication 04/06/03
- Language English
- ISBN 9780811217163
- Edition Not informed
- Category Poetry & Essays
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