Cowboy Graves

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By Roberto Bolaño & Natasha Wimmer

Publisher Description

One more journey to the universe of Roberto Bolaño, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literature

Cowboy Graves is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent. Roberto Bolaño's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into fiction is unmistakable in these three novellas. In "Cowboy Graves," Arturo Belano--Bolaño's alter ego--returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades for socialism. "French Comedy of Horrors" takes the reader to French Guiana on the night after an eclipse where 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 "Fatherland," a young poet reckons with the fascist overthrow of his country, as the woman he is obsessed with disappears in the ensuing violence and a Third Reich fighter plane mysteriously writes her poetry in the sky overhead.

These three fiercely original tales bear the signatures of Bolaño's extraordinary body of work, echoing the strange characters and uncanny scenes of his triumphs, while deepening our reverence for his gifts.

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30 Reviews

3.0

Mac Wolf

Created about 1 month ago

“don’t even know what this book was about. luckily it was less than 200 pages and i was able to read it in a day. i just closed it and i cant summarize it at all. 👎👎👎”

Flat Confusing Nonlinear narrative Hard to follow

Max

Created about 1 month ago

Jordan B

Created about 1 month ago

“I think I need to read more works in translation to fully understand what just happened.”

dostoevskys

Created about 2 months ago

“this does not deter me from reading more from bolano - in fact, his writing really intrigued me. i quite enjoyed french comedy of horrors but the rest just was not for me. BUT I WILL BE READING MORE because this feels like a fluke”

Disjointed Nonlinear narrative Surreal Takes getting used to

shelf.seeker

Created 8 months ago

“The first I've read from Bolaño, and I'm definitely intrigued enough to read more from him. I loved the note at the back as well, which supplies a perspective that his entire universe is a whole thing and should not be forced under the same logic that we tend to apply traditionally. Fragmentary seems right but it doesn't quite get what it is fully. Wouldn't recommend generally but excited to read more from him.”

Unpredictable Realistic Thought-provoking Original

About Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) was born in Santiago, Chile, and later lived in Mexico, Paris, and Spain. A poet and novelist, he has been acclaimed as "by far the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time" (Los Angeles Times), and as "the real thing and the rarest" (Susan Sontag). Among his many prizes are the prestigious Premio Herralde de Novela and the Premio Rómulo Gallegos. He is widely considered to be the greatest Latin American writer of his generation. His books include The Savage Detectives, 2666, The Spirit of Science Fiction, By Night in Chile, Distant Star, Last Evenings on Earth, and The Romantic Dogs.