Antwerp

Roberto Bolaño, Natasha Wimmer

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Book cover for Antwerp
Book cover for Antwerp
Book cover for Antwerp

Antwerp

Antwerp

Roberto Bolaño, Natasha Wimmer

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Written when he was only twenty-seven, Antwerp can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolano's fictional universe. This novel presents the genesis of Bolano's enterprise in prose; all the elements are here, highly compressed, at the moment when his talent explodes. From this springboard--which Bolano chose to publish in 2002, twenty years after he'd written it ("and even that I can't be certain of")--as if testing out a high dive, he would plunge into the unexplored depths of the modern novel.

Voices speak from a dream, from a nightmare, from passersby, from an omniscient narrator, from "Roberto Bolano." Antwerp's fractured narration in fifty-four sections moves in multiple directions and cuts to the bone.

Critical Reviews

Literature's new patron saint. -- Sam Anderson

The real thing and the rarest. -- Susan Sontag

Never less than mesmerizing.

Literature s new patron saint.--Sam Anderson

The real thing and the rarest.--Susan Sontag

Literature s new patron saint. --Sam Anderson

The real thing and the rarest. --Susan Sontag

He's already developed a dazzling style all his own. It is perfect for fans, good for recent converts.... --Don Sjoerdsma

There is great value if you are already a devotee. --Robert Birnbaum

Antwerp is a total avant-garde freakout, and has to be among the most linguistically beautiful things Bolano wrote. --Garth Risk Hallberg"

The only novel that doesn't embarrass me is Antwerp. --Roberto Bolano"

Never less than mesmerizing. "

Publishing Information

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub date: 2012-05-23
Length: 96 pages

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