Author: Bolaño, Roberto.
Publisher: Vintage Español
Pages:656
In the brief space of his short stories, Bolaño manages to condense his entire literary universe, one of the most disruptive and personal of contemporary Spanish literature: the literature that permeates everything; sexuality; the lives of characters that despite being common, live amongst the everyday and the extraordinary; the rebellion of those who live on the narrow border that separates the system from marginality; travel as an escape but also as a way of life; the need to reveal the uncertain; youth; violence and police plots; art as an obsession, and the continued search for one's own space in a foreign place. Belonging to the collections: "Murdering Whores", "The Insufferable Gaucho", "Last Evenings on Earth", and "The Secret of Evil", the pieces that make up this book become more enriched and acquire a different meaning as they establish a dialogue amongst them.