The Secret of Evil
Chris Andrews
(Translator)
Description
A North American journalist in Paris is woken at 4 a.m. by a mysterious caller with urgent information. For V. S. Naipaul the prevalence of sodomy in Argentina is a symptom of the nation's political ills. Daniela de Montecristo (familiar to readers of Nazi Literature in the Americas and 2666) recounts the loss of her virginity. Arturo Belano returns to Mexico City and meets the last disciples of Ulises Lima, who play in a band called The Asshole of Morelos. Belano's son Gerónimo disappears in Berlin during the Days of Chaos in 2005. Memories of a return to the native land. Argentine writers as gangsters. Zombie schlock as allegory...
The various pieces in the posthumous Secret of Evil extend the intricate, single web that is the work of Roberto Bolano.
Product Details
| Publisher | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Publish Date | April 30, 2012 |
| Pages | 192 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Hardback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780811218153 |
| Dimensions | 8.2 X 5.4 X 0.7 inches | 0.7 pounds |
About the Author
Reviews
One of those rare writers who write for a future time. We have only begun to appreciate his strange, oblique genius. --John Banville"
Bolano was no political pamphleteer. And yet his characters' angst and desires play out against the canvas of history. With his raw, barely controlled emotions, and a talent for mining the pathos, beauty, and even humor amid the horror of ordinary life, his fiction soared. --Mac Margolis (04/16/2012)
Bola o succeeds in conjuring the unknowable empty spaces that an obsessive mind can imagine into the private lives of others.
Bola o was no political pamphleteer. And yet his characters' angst and desires play out against the canvas of history. With his raw, barely controlled emotions, and a talent for mining the pathos, beauty, and even humor amid the horror of ordinary life, his fiction soared. --Mac Margolis (04/16/2012)
Poetry is dangerous; that's the message.
Bola o has joined the immortals.
A once-in-a-blue-moon rhapsodic reading experience. --Johnathan Lethem
Bolano has joined the immortals.
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