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The Insufferable Gaucho
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These five astonishing stories, along with two compelling essays, show Bolano as a magician, pulling bloodthirsty rabbits out of his hat.
The stories in The Insufferable Gaucho — unpredictable and daring, highly controlled yet somehow haywire — might concern a stalwart rat police detective investigating terrible rodent crimes, or an elusive plagiarist, or an elderly Argentine lawyer giving up city life for an improbable return to the familye state on the Pampas, now gone to wrack and ruin. These five astonishing stories, along with two compelling essays, show Bolano as a magician, pulling bloodthirsty rabbits out of his hat.Download the free Fable app
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Nathaniel Scales
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“This was my introduction to Bolaño and I am now significantly more excited to start 2666. These short stories and essays were all interesting in their own right, with some containing cut and dry messaging as with the rat cop and Bolaño’s final essay while some were hard to decipher, like the insufferable gaucho and the Catholic tales. All in all, Bolaño seems to be a master at crafting funny, disjointed, surreal, organic stories. The ones included here all speak to a different aspect of humanity and literature, and I feel that I learned a considerable amount about the production of the books that I love.”
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“Cariño eterno a Bolaño, que me acuerda que fui joven y bebí mucho en Río Piedras.”
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“Bolaño forever my goat”
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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.
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