by Roberto Bolaño
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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