Bien qu'il se soit toujours considéré comme un poète dans l'âme, Roberto Bolaño a finalement consacré son héritage littéraire à travers ses romans, novellas et recueils de nouvelles. Après une jeunesse nomade à travers l'Amérique du Sud et l'Europe, il s'installe en Espagne, occupant divers emplois manuels le jour et écrivant la nuit. Il s'est finalement tourné vers la prose au début de la quarantaine, motivé par le désir d'assurer l'avenir de sa famille, bien que son œuvre ait conservé une profonde sensibilité poétique. L'écriture de Bolaño est réputée pour son honnêteté brute et son exploration des aspects les plus sombres de la vie, souvent empreinte d'une qualité lyrique distinctive.
" Ma mort est là, pourtant j'ai encore beaucoup de choses à dire. J'étais en paix avec moi-même. [...] Maintenant je ne suis pas en paix. Il faut éclaircir certains points." Sur son lit de mort, le père Icabache revient sur son passé. Il donna des cours de marxisme à Pinochet et passa des soirées chez Maria Canales, dont le mari torturait des opposants au régime... Il tâche de se défendre d'accusations qui ne sont qu'une ultime manifestation de sa conscience. Le portrait s'achève, visionnaire, grotesque et effrayant, sur son apocalypse. Bolano éclaire un demi-siècle d'histoire chilienne et s'interroge : Que peut la littérature face aux ténèbres ?
The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age. National Bestseller 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. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run. The explosive first long work by "the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time" (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. This chorus includes the muses of visceral realism, the beautiful Font sisters; their father, an architect interned in a Mexico City asylum; a sensitive young follower of Octavio Paz; a foul-mouthed American graduate student; a French girl with a taste for the Marquis de Sade; the great-granddaughter of Leon Trotsky; a Chilean stowaway with a mystical gift for numbers; the anorexic heiress to a Mexican underwear empire; an Argentinian photojournalist in Angola; and assorted hangers-on, detractors, critics, lovers, employers, vagabonds, real-life literary figures, and random acquaintances. A polymathic descendant of Borges and Pynchon, Roberto Bolaño traces the hidden connection between literature and violence in a world where national boundaries are fluid and death lurks in the shadow of the avant-garde. The Savage Detectives is a dazzling original, the first great Latin American novel of the twenty-first century.
An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared.
Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of
Chile's young poetry scene. Known for his daring sky poems, penned in smoke
high above the cities, Weider's dazzling trajectory is a cause for
astonishment and speculation amongst his old poetry friends. číst celé
With the release of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives in 1998,journalist Monica Maristain discovered a writer “capable of befriending his readers.” After exchanging several letters with Bolaño, Maristain formed a friendship of her own, culminating in an extensive interview with the novelist about truth and consequences, an interview that turned out to be Bolaño’s last. Appearing for the first time in English, Bolaño’s final interview is accompanied by a collection of conversations with reporters stationed throughout Latin America, providing a rich context for the work of the writer who, according to essayist Marcela Valdes, is “a T.S. Eliot or Virginia Woolf of Latin American letters.” As in all of Bolaño’s work, there is also wide-ranging discussion of the author’s many literary influences. (Explanatory notes on authors and titles that may be unfamiliar to English-language readers are included here.) The interviews, all of which were completed during the writing of the gigantic 2666, also address Bolaño’s deepest personal concerns, from his domestic life and two young children to the realities of a fatal disease.
