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Last Evenings On Earth

Roberto Bolano author Chris Andrews translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:5th Sep '24

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‘This is where the story should end, but life is not as kind as literature...’

A journey to Acapulco gradually becomes a descent into the underworld. An elderly South American writer instructs a protégé in the subterfuges of entering work for provincial literary prizes. A litany unfolds, offering sixty-nine reasons why not to dance with Pablo Neruda.

‘The melancholy folklore of exile,’ as Roberto Bolaño once put it, pervades the fourteen haunting stories of Last Evenings on Earth. Set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe, and peopled by Bolano's beloved ‘failed generation,’ this collection was the first to introduce the English-speaking world to Bolaño’s immeasurable gifts as a short-story writer.

TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS

‘May be the most haunting and mesmerising collection I have ever read’ Daily Telegraph

‘It is a shame that Bolaño has no more evenings on earth, his unique voice asserting the importance and exuberance of literature will be sorely missed’ Guardian

The most influential and admired novelist of his generation in the Spanish-speaking world
Bolaño's language, alert and always graceful, his way of constructing narratives that are simultaneously disconcerting, brilliant and infinitely immediate, is a form of resisting evil, adversity and mediocrity * Le Monde *
‘Roberto Bolaño's oeuvre is among the great, blistering literary achievements of the twentieth century.’ -- Lauren Groff
‘Roberto Bolaño was a game changer: his field was politics, poetry and melancholia . . . and his writing was always unparalleled.’ -- Mariana Enríquez
‘Roberto Bolaño's fiction was hallucinatory, haunting and experimental.’ * Times Literary Supplement *

ISBN: 9781784879570

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 17mm

Weight: 206g

288 pages