Roberto Bolaño's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into enduring fiction is unmistakable in these three exhilarating novellas. In "Fatherland," a young poet reckons with the fascist overthrow of his country, as a friend disappears in the violence that ensues and a Third Reich fighter plane mysteriously writes her poetry in the sky overhead. In "French Comedy of Horrors," in the wake of an eclipse 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 the title novella, Arturo Belano--one of the recurring heroes of Bolaño's fiction--returns to Chile after the coup to fight for socialism.
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ISBN: 9780735233584
Physical Description:195 p. ; 22 cm.print
Publisher:New York : Penguin Press, 2021.
General Note: Translated from the Spanish.Originally published in Spanish as Sepulcros de vaqueros by Alfaguara, Madrid, 2017.
Formatted Contents Note: Cowboy graves -- French comedy of horrors -- Fatherland.