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Literature & Fiction

Antwerp

Antwerp

Antwerpâ€™s signature elementsâ€•crimes and campgrounds, drifters and poetry, sex and love, corrupt cops and misfitsâ€•mark this, his first novel, as pure Bolano. A elegantly produced, small collectible stamped cover-on-cloth edition.
As Bolanoâ€™s friend and literary executor, Ignacio EchevarrÃa, once suggested, Antwerp can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolanoâ€™s fictional universe. Reading this novel, the reader is present at the birth of Bolanoâ€™s enterprise in prose: all the elements are here, highly compressed, at the moment when his talent explodes. From this springboardâ€•which Bolano chose to publish in 2002, twenty years after heâ€™d written it (â€œand even that I canâ€™t be certain ofâ€)â€•as if testing out a high dive, he would plunge into the unexplored depths of the modern novel.

Antwerpâ€™s fractured narration in 54 sectionsâ€•voices from a dream, from a nightmare, from passers by, from an omniscient narrator, from â€œRoberto Bolanoâ€ all speakâ€•moves in multiple directions and cuts to the bone.
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2012-05-23
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811219914

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