The Insufferable Gaucho (New Directions Books)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780811217163 (0811217167)
ASIN: 0811217167
Publish date: 2010-08-31
Publisher: New Directions
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Category:
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Short Stories,
Spanish Literature,
Latin American,
Fiction
Not nearly as good as Last Evenings, this volume contains a collection of stories published posthumously. It does contain the interesting essay on illness + literature.
Another book I thoroughly enjoyed almost top to bottom. Except I read it for the most part backwards as I prefer essays to short stories, but who can tell the difference sometimes? As much as I enjoyed Roberto Bolaño's latest book of essays Between Parentheses this book flat knocked me out. Except ...
The Insufferable Gaucho is a mix of fiction (five short stories) and two essays which revisit themes, implicitly and explicitly, from Bolaño’s most ambitious novels, 2666 and The Savage DetectivesThe Short Stories:Jim—on the surface, a very short story about a troubled Vietnam veteran living the lif...
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