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Last Evenings on Earth (Paperback)

By: Chris Andrews (Author) and Roberto Bolano (Author)


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"Exile, alienation, and a fatalistic sense of the impermanence of human connections and relations dominate this collection of 14 stories by the late (1953-2003), brilliant Chilean author [Roberto Bolano]....[A]t his best, he echoes the elliptical precision of Borges, Kafka, Mexican surrealist Juan Rulfo, and the great prestidigitator Julio Cortazar."

"[Roberto] Bolano's work, at once baroque and attenuated, gives us the model for a literature that, Bartleby-like, flees itself, forgets its usual tasks, and achieves moral austerity through a prose that makes room for the blankness of pure attentiveness."

Publisher's note

A first English-language collection of fourteen short stories by a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award-winning writer features protagonists who are struggling with private, often unlucky quests during which they are marginalized to the point of terror.

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Roberto Bolano, a Chilean writer living in exile in Spain after the 1973 coup, writes with an oddly cool tone; despite his Leftist tendencies and the horrors taking place in Chile under Pinochet, Bolano was not one to turn polemical, and his heroes (if you can call them that) live in a kind of rueful detachment, an emotional limbo, cut off from the terrible events of history even as they take part in them. Similarly, they seem incapable of loving properly, as if their political helplessness has seeped into their hearts, poisoning their passions. LAST EVENINGS ON EARTH is an odd and unsettling short-story collection,



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