As Bolanos friend and literary executor, Ignacio Echevarría, once suggested, Antwerp can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolanos fictional universe. Reading this novel, the reader is present at the birth of Bolanos enterprise in prose: all the elements are here, highly compressed, at the moment when his talent explodes. From this springboardwhich Bolano chose to publish in 2002, twenty years after hed written it (and even that I cant be certain of)as if testing out a high dive, he would plunge into the unexplored depths of the modern novel.
Antwerps fractured narration in 54 sectionsvoices from a dream, from a nightmare, from passers by, from an omniscient narrator, from Roberto Bolano all speakmoves in multiple directions and cuts to the bone.
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Weight: 168g
Dimensions: 122 x 185mm
Publication Date: 14 May 2010
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780811217170
About Roberto Bolaño
Author of 2666 and many other acclaimed works Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) was born in Santiago Chile and later lived in Mexico Paris and Spain. He has been acclaimed by far the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time (Ilan Stavans The Los Angeles Times) and as the real thing and the rarest (Susan Sontag). Among his many prizes are the extremely prestigious Herralde de Novela Award and the Premio Rómulo Gallegos. He was widely considered to be the greatest Latin American writer of his generation. He wrote nine novels two story collections and five books of poetry before dying in July 2003 at the age of 50. Natasha Wimmers translation of Roberto Bolanos 2666 won the National Book Awards Best Novel of the Year as well as the PEN Prize.