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Last Evenings On Earth

Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2014-07-14
ISBN 13: 1446442489
Page : 288 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (424 users)

Download PDF or read online Last Evenings On Earth Book by Roberto Bolaño and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : This is the first collection by the universally acclaimed Chilean author to be published in English and it is an outstanding introduction to Bolaño's writing. Bolaño's narrators are grappling with their own private quests while living in the margins, on the edges, in constant flight from nightmarish threats. His stories are often witty, frequently melancholy and always original.

Last Evenings on Earth

by Roberto Bolaño

Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 2007
ISBN 13: 9780811216883
Page : 228 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (88 users)

Download PDF or read online Last Evenings on Earth Book by Roberto Bolaño and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Stories of the "failed generation" set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe.

Roberto Bolaño's Fiction

by Chris Andrews

Publisher : Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-29
ISBN 13: 0231537530
Page : 304 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (375 users)

Download PDF or read online Roberto Bolaño's Fiction Book by Chris Andrews and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading translator of Bolaño's work into English, explores the singular achievements of the author's oeuvre, engaging with its distinct style and key thematic concerns, incorporating his novels and stories into the larger history of Latin American and global literary fiction. Andrews provides new readings and interpretations of Bolaño's novels, including 2666, The Savage Detectives, and By Night in Chile, while at the same time examining the ideas and narrative strategies that unify his work. He begins with a consideration of the reception of Bolaño's fiction in English translation, examining the reasons behind its popularity. Subsequent chapters explore aspects of Bolaño's fictional universe and the political, ethical, and aesthetic values that shape it. Bolaño emerges as the inventor of a prodigiously effective "fiction-making system," a subtle handler of suspense, a chronicler of aimlessness, a celebrator of courage, an anatomist of evil, and a proponent of youthful openness. Written in a clear and engaging style, Roberto Bolano's Fiction offers an invaluable understanding of one of the most important authors of the last thirty years.

Understanding Roberto Bolaño

by Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat

Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2016-11-21
ISBN 13: 1611176492
Page : 248 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (764 users)

Download PDF or read online Understanding Roberto Bolaño Book by Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : In Understanding Roberto Bolaño, Ricardo Gutiérrez-Mouat offers a comprehensive analysis of this critically acclaimed Chilean poet and novelist whose work brought global attention to Latin American literature in the 1960s unseen since the rise of García Márquez and magic realism. Best known for The Savage Detectives, winner of the Rómulo Gallegos Prize; the novella By Night in Chile; and the posthumously published novel 2666, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bolaño died in 2003 just as his reputation was becoming established. After a brief biographical sketch, Gutiérrez-Mouat chronologically contextualizes literary interpretations of Bolaño’s work in terms of his life, cultural background, and political ideals. Gutiérrez-Mouat explains Bolaño’s work to an English-speaking audience—including his relatively neglected poetry—and conveys a sense of where Bolaño fits in the Latin American tradition. Since his death, eleven of novels, four short story collections, and three poetry collections have been translated into English. The afterword addresses Bolaño’s status as a Latin American writer, as the former literary editor of El País claimed, “neither magical realist, nor baroque nor localist, but [creator of] an imaginary, extraterritorial mirror of Latin America, more as a kind of state of mind than a specific place.”

Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star

by I. López-Calvo

Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2015-03-04
ISBN 13: 1137492961
Page : 220 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (929 users)

Download PDF or read online Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star Book by I. López-Calvo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Roberto Bolaño has attained an almost mythical stature and is often considered the most influential Latin American writer of his generation. The first English-language volume of essays on the Chilean author, Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star: Critical Essays, includes ten critical essays of his oeuvre. With a special emphasis on his masterpieces: 2666, The Savage Detectives, By Night in Chile, and Distant Star, the essays address topics such as Borges's influence and the role of repetition, social memory, allegory, and neoliberalism.

Bookshops

by Jorge Carrión

Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-10-13
ISBN 13: 0857054457
Page : 240 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (544 users)

Download PDF or read online Bookshops Book by Jorge Carrión and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : "A lot of people will be interested in the famous bookshops of the world: Jorge Carrión has gone and visited them all. We can't travel right now, but we can travel in books." MARGARET ATWOOD Why do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and literature? In this inventive and highly entertaining extended essay, Jorge Carrion takes his reader on a journey around the world, via its bookshops. His travels take him to Shakespeare & Co in Paris, Wells in Winchester, Green Apple Books in San Francisco, Librairie des Colonnes in Tangier, the Strand Book Store in New York and provoke encounters with thinkers, poets, dreamers, revolutionaries and readers. Bookshops is the travelogue of a lucid and curious observer, filled with anecdotes and stories from the universe of writing, publishing and selling books. A bookshop in Carrion's eyes never just a place for material transaction; it is a meeting place for people and their ideas, a setting for world changing encounters, a space that can transform lives. Written in the midst of a worldwide recession, Bookshops examines the role of these spaces in today's evershifting climate of globalisation, vanishing high streets, e-readers and Amazon. But far from taking a pessimistic view of the future of the physical bookshop, Carrion makes a compelling case for hope, underlining the importance of these places and the magic that can happen there. A vital manifesto for the future of the traditional bookshop, and a delight for all who love them. Translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush

Roberto Bolaño In Context

by Jonathan B. Monroe

Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-11-30
ISBN 13: 110887584X
Page : 643 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (758 users)

Download PDF or read online Roberto Bolaño In Context Book by Jonathan B. Monroe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : From his first fifteen years in Chile, to his nine years in Mexico City from 1968 to 1977, to the quarter of a century he lived and worked in the Blanes-Barcelona area on the Costa Brava in Spain through his death in 2003, Roberto Bolaño developed into an astonishingly diverse, prolific writer. He is one of the most consequential and widely read of his generation in any language. Increasingly recognized not only in Latin America, but as a major figure in World Literature, Bolaño is an essential writer for the 21st century world. This volume provides a comprehensive mapping of the pivotal contexts, events, stages, and influences shaping Bolaño's writing. As the wide-ranging investigations of this volume's 30 distinguished scholars show, Bolaño's influence and impact will shape literary cultures worldwide for years to come.

Found in Translation

by Frank Wynne

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-09-06
ISBN 13: 1786695286
Page : 1767 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (952 users)

Download PDF or read online Found in Translation Book by Frank Wynne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 1767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : 'Without translation, we would be living in provinces bordering on silence' George Steiner. It is impossible to overstate the influence world literatures have had in defining each other. No culture exists in isolation; all writers are part of the intertwining braid of literature. Found In Translation brings together one hundred glittering diamonds of world literature, celebrating not only the original texts themselves but also the art of translation. From Azerbijan to Uzbekistan, by way of China and Bengal, Suriname and Slovenia, some of the greatest voices of world literature come together in a thunderous chorus. If the authors include Nobel Prize winners, some of the translators are equally famous – here, Saul Bellow translates Isaac Beshevis Singer, D.H. Lawrence and Edith Wharton translate classic Italian short stories, and Victoria Hislop has taken her first venture into translation with the only short story written by Constantine P. Cavafy. This exciting, original and brilliantly varied collection of stories takes the reader literally on a journey, exploring the best short stories the globe has to offer.

Organization 2666

by Christian De Cock

Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-06-15
ISBN 13: 365829650X
Page : 169 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (965 users)

Download PDF or read online Organization 2666 Book by Christian De Cock and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Climate – Chaos – Trump – Brexit – Terror: the apocalypse looms large in the Zeitgeist. Could and should this not provide the fulcrum for renewing the imaginative range of organization studies? In this volume, we bring together scholars who have taken Roberto Bolaño’s visionary novel 2666 as a starting point for reflections, provocations, and challenges to established imaginaries. How can we cultivate and develop our attention to the violent organization of the world without reproducing more violence? Contributors to this edited volume take on this challenge as they seek to break through the various blind spots in the discipline of management and organization studies. Bolaño’s work opens up hidden and fantastic dimensions in organization and provides alternative spaces and associations for new and bold organizational thinking. Variously disturbing, self-destructive, and abyssal, these essays reflect “that something that terrifies us all” as Bolaño wrote, “that something that cows and spurs us on”. We call this something Organization 2666.

How to Write A Short Story (And Think About It)

by Robert Graham

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-09-16
ISBN 13: 1350309168
Page : 306 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (91 users)

Download PDF or read online How to Write A Short Story (And Think About It) Book by Robert Graham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Short story publishing is flourishing in the 21st century and is no longer seen as a poor relation of the novel. But what is a short story? And how do you write one? Robert Graham takes you through everything you need to know, from how a writer works to crafting and editing your own fiction. This heavily revised edition features new chapters by contemporary fiction writers. Stressing the importance of reading broadly and deeply, the book includes a wide range of prompts and writing exercises. It teaches you how to read as a writer and write like somebody who has read. You will learn the elements of craft you need to produce short stories, and one of the key writer's disciplines: reflecting on your own work. Whether you are a student or an experienced author, this book will teach you how to write short stories – and reflect on the creative processes involved. The book features chapters from writer-teachers James Friel, Rodge Glass, Ursula Hurley, Heather Leach, Helen Newall, Jenny Newman, James Rice and Tom Vowler.

The Savage Detectives

by Roberto Bolaño

Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2015-07-16
ISBN 13: 0330525808
Page : pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (258 users)

Download PDF or read online The Savage Detectives Book by Roberto Bolaño and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : With an afterword by Natasha Wimmer. Winner of the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize. Natasha Wimmer’s translation of The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and the New York Times. New Year’s Eve 1975, Mexico City. Two hunted men leave town in a hurry, on the desert-bound trail of a vanished poet. Spanning two decades and crossing continents, theirs is a remarkable quest through a darkening universe – our own. It is a journey told and shared by a generation of lovers, rebels and readers, whose testimonies are woven together into one of the most dazzling Latin American novels of the twentieth century.

Roberto Bolaño as World Literature

by Nicholas Birns

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2017-01-26
ISBN 13: 1501316079
Page : 224 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (16 users)

Download PDF or read online Roberto Bolaño as World Literature Book by Nicholas Birns and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Roberto Bolaño as World Literature provides an introduction to the Chilean novelist that highlights his connections with classic and contemporary masters of world literature and his investigation of topics of international interest, such as the rise of rightwing and neofascist movements during the last decades of the 20th century. But this anthology also shows how Roberto Bolaño's participation in world literature is informed in his experiences, identity, and, more generally, cultural location as a Chilean, Latin American and, more generally, Hispanic writer and man. This book provides a corrective to readings of his novels as exclusively "postmodern" or as unproblematically representative of Chilean or Latin American reality. Roberto Bolaño as World Literature thus helps readers to better understand such complex works as his monumental global five-part masterpiece 2666, his Chilean novels (Distant Star, By Night in Chile), and his Mexican narratives (Amulet, The Savage Detectives), among other works.

Roberto Bolano: The Last Interview

by Roberto Bolaño

Publisher : Melville House
Release Date : 2011-12-06
ISBN 13: 1612190952
Page : 130 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (99 users)

Download PDF or read online Roberto Bolano: The Last Interview Book by Roberto Bolaño and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : 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.

How to be Well Read

by John Sutherland

Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2014-05-08
ISBN 13: 1409039153
Page : 662 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (391 users)

Download PDF or read online How to be Well Read Book by John Sutherland and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : 'Generous, enjoyable and well informed.' Observer '500 expertly potted plots and personal comments on a wide range of pop and proper prose fiction.' The Times ___________________________________________________________ Ranging all the way from Aaron's Rod to Zuleika Dobson, via The Devil Rides Out and Middlemarch, literary connoisseur and sleuth John Sutherland offers his very personal guide to the most rewarding, most remarkable and, on occasion, most shamelessly enjoyable works of fiction ever written. He brilliantly captures the flavour of each work and assesses its relative merits and demerits. He shows how it fits into a broader context and he offers endless snippets of intriguing information: did you know, for example, that the Nazis banned Bambi or that William Faulkner wrote As I Lay Dying on an upturned wheelbarrow; that Voltaire completed Candide in three days, or that Anna Sewell was paid £20 for Black Beauty? It is also effectively a history of the novel in 500 or so wittily informative, bite-sized pieces. Encyclopaedic and entertaining by turns, this is a wonderful dip-in book, whose opinions will inform and on occasion, no doubt, infuriate. __________________________________________________ 'Anyone hooked on fiction should be warned: this book will feed your addiction.' Mail on Sunday 'A dazzling array of genres, periods, styles and tastes... chatty, insightful, unprejudiced (but not uncritical) and wise.' Times Literary Supplement

Perfect Sound Whatever

by James Acaster

Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-08-22
ISBN 13: 1472260325
Page : 288 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (63 users)

Download PDF or read online Perfect Sound Whatever Book by James Acaster and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : *The Sunday Times Bestseller* The brand new memoir from James Acaster: cult comedian, bestselling author of Classic Scrapes, undercover cop, receiver of cabbages. PERFECT SOUND WHATEVER is a love letter to the healing power of music, and how one man's obsessive quest saw him defeat the bullshit of one year with the beauty of another. Because that one man is James Acaster, it also includes tales of befouling himself in a Los Angeles steakhouse, stealing a cookie from Clint Eastwood, and giving drunk, unsolicited pep talks to urinating strangers. January, 2017 James Acaster wakes up heartbroken and alone in New York, his relationship over, a day of disastrous meetings leading him to wonder if comedy is really what he wants to be doing any more. A constant comfort in James's life has been music, but he's not listened to anything new for a very long time. Idly browsing 'best of the year' lists, it dawns on him that 2016 may have been a grim year for a lot of reasons, but that it seemed to be an iconic year for music. And so begins a life-changing musical odyssey, as James finds himself desperately seeking solace in the music of 2016, setting himself the task of only listening to music released that year, ending up with 500 albums in his collection. Looking back on this year-long obsession, parallels begin to grow between the music and James's own life: his relationship history, the highs and lows of human connection, residual Christian guilt, and mental health issues that have been bubbling under the surface for years. Some albums are life-changing masterpieces, others are 'Howdilly Doodilly' by Okilly Dokilly, a metalcore album devoted to The Simpsons' character Ned Flanders, but all of them play a part the year that helped James Acaster get his life back on track.

Creative Writing

by Jane Yeh

Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-11-10
ISBN 13: 1000835197
Page : 676 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (351 users)

Download PDF or read online Creative Writing Book by Jane Yeh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings provides a complete creative writing course: from ways to jump-start your writing and inspire your creativity, right through to presenting your work to agents and publishers. It covers the genres of fiction, poetry and life writing (including autobiography, biography and travel writing), combining discussions of technique with readings and exercises to guide you step by step towards becoming more adept at creative writing. The second edition has been updated and in large part newly written, with readings by a diverse group of contemporary authors displaying a variety of styles and approaches. Each chapter also features an array of inspiring writing exercises, enabling you to experiment with different methods and discover your strengths. Above all, Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings will help you to develop your abilities while nurturing your individual voice as a writer.

The Latin American Mixtape

by Scott Esposito

Publisher : Scott Esposito
Release Date : 2015-09-20
ISBN 13:
Page : pages
Rating : 4./5 ( users)

Download PDF or read online The Latin American Mixtape Book by Scott Esposito and published by Scott Esposito. This book was released on 2015-09-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt/synopsis : FEATURES “THE DIGRESSION” AND A LONG INTERVIEW WITH CESAR AIRA The Latin American Mixtape is a collection of literary “b sides” and hard to find items, all relating to Latin America and its authors. It features 3 never-before-published essays, including “The Digression”—a 4,000-word piece on the most important digression in César Aira’s career, written specifically for the Mixtape. Plus, an in-depth essay on Rodrigo Rey Rosa. Also includes hard-to-find interviews and essays, and each piece comes with a short intro explaining why I have chosen to place it in the mixtape. 5 essays. 2 interviews. All in all, over 25,000 words of Latin American literary goodness.