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Distant Star

Nazi Literature In The Americas

  • Nazi Literature In The Americas
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    Roberto Bolaño ; translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews
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    Book, New Directions, 2008
  • Description

    A playful and entirely original novel masquerading as a mini-encyclopedia of nonexistent Nazi literature in our hemisphere by Roberto Bolao: “his generation’s premier Latin-American writer” (The New York Times). Composed of short biographies about imaginary writers from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Columbia, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, and the USA, Nazi Literature in the Americas includes descriptions of the writers’ works, cross references, a bibliography, and also an epilogue (”For Monsters”). (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PQ8098.12.O38 L5813 2008  AVAILABLE

By Night In Chile

  • By Night In Chile
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    Roberto Bolaño ; translated from the spanish by Chris Andrews
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    Book, New Directions Books, 2003
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    A deathbed confession revolving around Opus Dei and Pinochet, By Night in Chile pours out the self-justifying dark memories of the Jesuit priest Father Urrutia. As through a crack in the wall, By Night in Chile’s single night-long rant provides a terrifying, clandestine view of the strange bedfellows of Church and State in Chile. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PQ8098.12.O38 N6313 2003b  AVAILABLE

The Romantic Dogs : 1980-1998

  • The Romantic Dogs : 1980-1998
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    Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Laura Healy
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    Book, New Directions Pub, 2008
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    Roberto Bolao (1953-2003) has caught on like a house on fire, and The Romantic Dogs, a bilingual collection of forty-four poems, offers American readers their first chance to encounter this literary phenomenon as a poet: his own first and strongest literary persona. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PQ8098.12.O38 P4713 2008  AVAILABLE

Last Evenings On Earth

Amulet

  • Amulet
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    Roberto Bolano ; translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews
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    Book, New Directions, 2006
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    A tour de force, Amulet is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman’s voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America. Auxilio speaks of her passionate attachment to young poets as well as to two beloved aged poets, to a woman who once slept with Che Guevera, and to the painter Remedios Varo, recalling visits which never occured. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PQ8098.12.O38 A6813 2006  AVAILABLE

The Savage Detectives

  • The Savage Detectives
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    Roberto Bolaño ; translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
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    Book, 1st American ed, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007
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    New Year?s Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. (Ilan Stavans, Los Angeles Times), The Savage Detectives follows Belano and Lima through the eyes of the people whose paths they cross in Central America, Europe, Israel, and West Africa. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PQ8098.12.O38 D4813 2007  AVAILABLE