Description
Antwerp’s signature elements—crimes and campgrounds, drifters and poetry, sex and love, corrupt cops and misfits—mark this, his first novel, as pure Bolaño. A elegantly produced, small collectible stamped cover-on-cloth edition.
As Bolano’s friend and literary executor, Ignacio Echevarría, once suggested, Antwerp can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolano’s fictional universe. Reading this novel, the reader is present at the birth of Bolano’s enterprise in prose: all the elements are here, highly compressed, at the moment when his talent explodes. From this springboard—which Bolano chose to publish in 2002, twenty years after he’d written it (“and even that I can’t be certain of”)—as if testing out a high dive, he would plunge into the unexplored depths of the modern novel.
Antwerp’s fractured narration in 54 sections—voices from a dream, from a nightmare, from passers by, from an omniscient narrator, from “Roberto Bolano” all speak—moves in multiple directions and cuts to the bone.
Antwerp’s fractured narration in 54 sections—voices from a dream, from a nightmare, from passers by, from an omniscient narrator, from “Roberto Bolano” all speak—moves in multiple directions and cuts to the bone.
Reviews
"Never less than mesmerizing." — The Los Angeles Times
"Literature’s new patron saint." — Sam Anderson, New York Magazine
"The real thing and the rarest." — Susan Sontag
"There is great value if you are already a devotee." — Robert Birnbaum, The Morning News, Boston
Also By: Roberto Bolaño 
The Romantic Dogs: Poems
E Book, 2014
Listed as a "2009 Indie Next List Poetry Top Ten" book by the American Booksellers Association: Roberto Bolaño as he saw himself, in his own first calling as a poet.
The Insufferable Gaucho
Paperback, 2013
These five astonishing stories, along with two compelling essays, show Bolaño as a magician, pulling bloodthirsty rabbits out of his hat.
The Insufferable Gaucho
E Book, 2013
These five astonishing stories, along with two compelling essays, show Bolaño as a magician, pulling bloodthirsty rabbits out of his hat.
The Return
Paperback, 2012
A stunning collection of short stories - mostly dealing with the sex trade - by the late Chilean master and author of The Savage Detectives.
The Return
E Book, 2012
A stunning collection of short stories - mostly dealing with the sex trade - by the late Chilean master and author of The Savage Detectives.
Also By: Natasha Wimmer
Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003
E Book, 2012
The essays of Roberto Bolaño in English at last.
Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003
Hardback, 2011
The essays of Roberto Bolaño in English at last.
