Distant Star
Antwerp’s signature elements―crimes and campgrounds, drifters and poetry, sex and love, corrupt cops and misfits―mark this, his first novel, as pure Bolano. A elegantly produced, small collectible stamped cover-on-cloth edition.
As Bolano’s friend and literary executor, Ignacio EchevarrÃa, 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 ofâ€)―as if testing out a high dive, he would plunge into the unexplored depths of the modern novel.Country | USA |
Brand | New Directions |
Manufacturer | New Directions |
Binding | Hardcover |
ReleaseDate | 2010-04-30 |
UnitCount | 1 |
EANs | 9780811217170 |