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Monsieur Pain

Conseils d'un disciple de Morrison à un fanatique de Joyce

L'Esprit de la science-fiction (inédit)

La Littérature nazie en Amérique

Des putains meurtrières

Les Déboires du vrai policier (inédit)

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

Oeuvres complètes - Tome 2

On trouve, dans ce thriller sans solution, des cadavres et des flics, des scènes sado-masochistes, des plages balayées par l'automne méditerranéen, des campings déserts comme celui où un clandestin chilien écrit ce roman, des hallucinations, des transcriptions de cauchemars, les premiers détectives fantômes qui dérivent.

Anvers

A tale of bohemian youth on the make in Mexico City from a master of contemporary fiction, and a sublime precursor to The Savage Detectives. Two young poets, Jan and Remo, find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life in the literary world - or sacrifice themselves to it. Roberto Bolaño's The Spirit of Science Fiction is a story of youth hungry for revolution, notoriety, and sexual adventure, as they work to construct a reality out of the fragments of their dreams. But as close as these friends are, the city tugs them in opposite directions. Jan withdraws from the world, shutting himself in their shared rooftop apartment where he feverishly composes fan letters to the stars of science fiction, and dreams of cosmonauts and Nazis. Meanwhile, Remo runs head-first into the future, spending his days and nights with a circle of wild young writers, seeking pleasure in the city's labyrinthine streets, rundown cafes, and murky bathhouses. The Spirit of Science Fiction is a kaleidoscopic work of strange and tender beauty, and a fitting introduction for readers uninitiated into the thrills of Roberto Bolaño's fiction. It is an indispensable addition to an ecstatic and transgressive body of work.

The Spirit of Science Fiction

Amidst the seedy hotels and deserted campsites of the Costa Brava, someone has gone missing. A detective sets out to find them. They search among the hapless girls, failed poets, and shifty policemen that populate this dream world - but every door opens onto a nightmare. An experimental novella, spliced together in vignettes, Antwerp is Roberto Bolaño's first work of fiction. A personal declaration of the power of literature, to read it is to be present at 'the big bang' of Bolaño's enterprise into prose, to see the beginning, to witness the moment when his talent explodes. TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER'A fascinating, even compulsory addition to the Bolaño fan's bookshelf' Daily Telegraph'Bolaño set a new speed limit for literature. He simply wrote past other authors... His books are volcanic, perilous, charged with infectious erotic energy and demonic lucidity' Benjamín Labatut, author of The Maniac

Antwerp

Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chile's young poetry scene. But the military coup of 1973 sees Alberto reborn as Chile's leading celebrity poet, Carlos Wieder. Known for his daring sky poems, penned in smoke high above the cities, Weider's dazzling trajectory is a cause for astonishment and speculation amongst his old poetry friends. Where did this talent suddenly spring from? And, how is it connected to the disappearance of the beautiful Garmendia twins?Told from across the years in exile in Europe, the narrator's attempts to trace the fate of his old circle will lead him to one last confrontation with the brutality of their generation. TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS'Roberto Bolaño's universe - huge, interconnected, polyphonic - is formed from the collision of a wicked sense of humour and a vast and white-hot moral fire... His oeuvre is among the great, blistering literary achievements of the twentieth century' Lauren Groff'For stunning wit, brutal honesty, loving humanity and a heart that bleeds into the simplest of words, no other writer ever came close' Marlon James

Distant Star

Dans ce "roman" constitué d'une trentaine de biographies fictives d'écrivains et d'artistes américains, la plupart latino-américains, le lecteur est mené à travers le XXe siècle, de la Patagonie aux prisons du Sud des Etats-Unis, de la bourgeoise mexicaine conservatrice aux supporters de l'équipe de football d'Argentine. Loin d'être un simple exercice littéraire, cette parodie grinçante s'en prend à certaines réalités sud-américaines.

La Littérature nazie en Amérique

'In this neighbourhood, only the dead go out for a walk'... A young party animal collapses in a Parisian disco and dies on the dance floor, only to watch his soul departing his body. Two embittered police detectives debate their favourite weapons. A violent man looks back on his childhood and seeks out the now-aged male porn actor his mother shot movies with. Here is the eagerly anticipated second volume of stories by Roberto Bolaño. Tender or etched in acid; hazily suggestive or chillingly definitive: The Return is a trove of strangely arresting short master works. TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS'Dark, intimate and sneakily touching... There is gold to be found in this collection' New York Review of Books'Each tale turns the reader into a voyeur, grasping at snapshots of troubled lives and ghosts' Observer 'A compelling encapsulation of Bolaño's work... You won't be bored' Los Angeles Times

The Return

Dans le Chili estudiantin des années 1970, l'élégant et distant Alberto Ruiz-Tagle fascine tout l'atelier de poésie. Le coup d'État de Pinochet déchaîne sa créativité : poèmes macabres écrits dans le ciel par un avion, photographies d'une violence insoutenable, pièces de théâtre sadiques, jusqu'à son chef-d'oeuvre ultime... le meurtre. Roberto Bolaño déploie sa singulière imagination dans cet étrange roman sur la démence et le mal.

étoile distante

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.

Oeuvres complètes - Tome 2

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