« Peu de romanciers ont comme Roberto Bolaño,avec un sens formidablement élégant de la dérision et de l'absurde, réveillé le tonnerre littéraire. »

Philippe Lançon, Libération


OEuvres complètes III

La Piste de glace

Le Troisième Reich

Intempéries

Traduit de l'espagnol (Chili)
par Robert Amutio et Jean-Marie Saint-Lu.

OEuvres complètes - volume 3

Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime': so Bianca begins her tale of growing up the hard way in Rome in A Little Lumpen Novelita. Orphaned overnight as a teenager - 'our parents died in a car crash on their first vacation without us' - she drops out of school, gets a crappy job, sees a terrible brightness at night, and drifts into bad company. Her little brother brings home two petty criminals who need a place to stay. As the four of them share the family apartment and plot a strange crime, Bianca learns she can drift lower .

A Little Lumpen Novelita

'Companionable, exotic, witty and glamorously suggestive' ObserverOne more journey to the literary universe of Roberto Bolaño, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literatureRoberto 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 '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. Cowboy Graves is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a master of contemporary fiction. These three fiercely original tales bear the signatures of Bolaño's extraordinary body of work, echoing the strange characters and uncanny scenes of his great triumphs, while deepening our understanding of his profound gifts.

Cowboy Graves - Three Novellas

The Collected Short Stories of Roberto Bolaño

Oeuvres complètes - volume 1

'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

Last Evenings On Earth

En 1975, Juan Garcia Madero abandonne ses études pour se consacrer à la poésie. Il plonge dans les bas-fonds de Mexico et fait la rencontre d'Ulises Lima et Arturo Belano, chefs de file des réal-viscéralistes, un groupe de poètes avant-gardistes. Accompagnés d'une prostituée nommée Lupe, les trois hommes se lancent à la recherche de la poétesse mythique Cesarea Tinajero, dont la trace se perd dans le désert... Parviendront-ils à la retrouver ?

Les Détectives sauvages

Paris, avril 1938. À la clinique Arago, le poète Vallejo se meurt, possédé d'un hoquet incurable. Marcelle Reynaud demande à son ami Pierre Pain, adepte de Mesmer et des sciences occultes, de venir voir le malade. Après cette visite, il est poursuivi par deux Espagnols qui essayent de le convaincre de ne pas soigner le poète. Pain est alors mêlé à une inquiétante conspiration sur laquelle plane l'ombre d'un assassinat rituel.

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