Last Evenings on Earth
Last Evenings on Earth
Last Evenings on Earth
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Description
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"The melancholy folklore of exile," as Roberto Bolano once put it, pervades these fourteen haunting stories. Bolano's narrators are usually writers grappling with private (and generally unlucky) quests, who typically speak in the first person, as if giving a deposition, like witnesses to a crime. These protagonists tend to take detours and to narrate unresolved efforts. They are characters living in the margins, often coming to pieces, and sometimes, as in a nightmare, in constant flight from something horrid.
In the short story "Silva the Eye," Bolano writes in the opening sentence: "It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as The Eye, always tried to escape violence, even at the risk of being considered a coward, but the violence, the real violence, can't be escaped, at least not by us, born in Latin America in the 1950s, those of us who were around 20 years old when Salvador Allende died."
Set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe, and peopled by Bolano's beloved "failed generation," the stories of Last Evenings on Earth have appeared in The New Yorker and Grand Street.
In the short story "Silva the Eye," Bolano writes in the opening sentence: "It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as The Eye, always tried to escape violence, even at the risk of being considered a coward, but the violence, the real violence, can't be escaped, at least not by us, born in Latin America in the 1950s, those of us who were around 20 years old when Salvador Allende died."
Set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe, and peopled by Bolano's beloved "failed generation," the stories of Last Evenings on Earth have appeared in The New Yorker and Grand Street.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
The most influential and admired novelist of his generation in the Spanish-speaking world.--Susan Sontag
Complex and provocative.-- "International Herald Tribune"
His generation's premier Latin-American writer... Bolaño's reputation and legend are in meteoric ascent.--Larry Rohter "The New York Times"
I am addicted to the haze that floats above Bolaño's fiction.--Wayne Kostenbaum "Bookforum"
If you haven't heard of Roberto Bolaño yet, you will soon.--Benjamin Lytal "The New York Sun"
Bolaño's characters yearn for amnesia as well as for the ability to connect to someone or something in the present.--Stephanie Hanson "Los Angeles Times"
Brilliant.-- "Kirkus Reviews"
Conjures dreamlike worlds that shock with their familiarity.--Philip Herter "St. Petersburg Times"
Just behind the nervy, deadpan narrative a total breakdown perpetually looms.--Andersen Tepper "Village Voice"
Widely known in the Spanish-speaking world as the premier writer of his generation.--Dan Pope "Hartford Courant"
[B]leakly luminous stories...-- "Publishers Weekly"
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub date:
2007-04-01
Length:
256 pages
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