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Vagabonds.(Biography)
"And then I never saw him again": this phrase recurs with eerie frequency in the work of the Chilean-born writer Roberto Bolano, who died four years ago, in Barcelona, at the age of fifty. In Bolano's ten novels and three story collections--all completed in his torrential final decade, before he succumbed to a chronic liver ailment that he suspected would seal his fate--characters go through life in a state of agitated migration. They sever friendships, quit jobs, abandon apartments without giving notice, skip the return flight home, assume new identities, flee combustive love affairs, cut off ties to everyone they have ever known, head off into the desert, simply ...
- Roberto Bolano. El gaucho insufrible.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Corral, Will H. September 1, 2004 700+ words
Roberto Bolano. El gaucho insufrible...was the last book Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) delivered...hypnotized by a tire-eater in Mexico City, the destroyed personalities...but they also scare you. Bolano was the Dirty Harry of Latin...
- Roberto Bolano.(author profile)(Author bibliography)(Biography)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today November 1, 2006 700+ words
...2002) "Reading Roberto Bolano is like hearing the secret...Review July 9, 2006 Roberto Bolano was born on April 28, 1953...to town before settling in Mexico City in 1968. At the age of twenty, Bolano returned to Chile--a month...
- The last words of Roberto Bolano.(Books)(The Savage Detectives)
- Magazine article from: Esquire Richardson, John H. November 1, 2008 700+ words
...the book that made Roberto Bolano the most celebrated Latin...century, was the feeling that Bolano could and would do anything...their days drifting around Mexico City, attacking their elders as...from a killer pimp--when Bolano interrupted the plot for 500...
- A noisy soul: Roberto Bolano's defiant fiction.
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Sayers, Valerie July 13, 2007 700+ words
...literary place. Bolano merges fiction...family moved to Mexico City in 1968, but at...subsequent return to Mexico City was haunted by...infrarealismo in Mexico City in the 1970s...obnoxiousness (as Bolano, who gleefully...
- Roberto Bolano. The Savage Detectives.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Corral, Will H. November 1, 2007 700+ words
Roberto Bolano. The Savage Detectives. Natasha Wimmer...postmodern novels that followed them, Roberto Bolano's bittersweet epic is the result of...John Le Carre abetted by Camusian ideas. Bolano also easily anticipates Kundera's injunctions...
- Bolano, Roberto. Last evenings on earth.(Young adult review)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Kliatt Neissa, Peter September 1, 2007 700+ words
BOLANO, Roberto. Last evenings on earth. Tr...8112-1688-3. $13.95. SA Roberto Bolano died in 2003 and, except for a handful...brighter. Last Evenings on Earth demonstrates Bolano's signature style in 14 short stories...
- Recuerdan amigos a Roberto Bolano.(Cultura)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) November 13, 2003 700+ words
...anecdotas y la obra inconclusa de Roberto Bolano (Chile, 1953-2003) fueron los ejes...la ultima obra del chileno. Amigos de Bolano en Mexico, como el cineasta Jose Peguero...recordo el ultimo encuentro que tuvo con Bolano, posterior al fallecimiento de Augusto...
- Roberto Bolano. Distant Star.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction Post, Chad W. March 22, 2005 700+ words
Roberto Bolano. Distant Star. Trans. Chris Andrews...Paper: $14.95. The seed of this, Bolano's second novel to be translated into...developed into "a mirror and an explosion," Bolano wrote this novel about another Chilean...
