Tres
Roberto Bolaño
(Author)
Laura Healy
(Translator)
Description
Roberto Bolan o's Tres is a showcase of the author's willingness to freely cross genres, with poems in prose, stories in verse, and flashes of writing that can hardly be categorized. As the title implies, the collection is composed of three sections. "Prose from Autumn in Gerona," a cinematic series of prose poems, slowly reveals a subtle and emotional tale of unrequited love by presenting each scene, shattering it, and piecing it all back together, over and over again. The second part, "The Neochileans," is a sort of On the Road in verse, which narrates the travels of a young Chilean band on tour in the far reaches of their country. Finally, the collection ends with a series of short poems that take us on "A Stroll Through Literature" and remind us of Bolan o's masterful ability to walk the line between the comically serious and the seriously comical.Product Details
Price
$24.95
$23.20
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
September 30, 2011
Pages
173
Dimensions
5.8 X 0.8 X 8.32 inches | 0.73 pounds
Language
Spanish
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780811219273
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About the Author
Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealist poetry movement. His first full-length novel, The Savage Detectives, received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998. Roberto Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.
Laura Healy has received a Master's in Spanish from Harvard. She is the managing editor of Harvard Review and the web editor of Zoland Poetry.
Reviews
We savor all he has written as every offering is a portal into the elaborate terrain of his genius.--Patti Smith
Its complexities amaze and treat us to an unexpected magical experience that one can sit down reading for hours until our eyes and brain go numb--and you'll like it.
One of my two best books.--Roberto Bolaño
Its complexities amaze and treat us to an unexpected magical experience that one can sit down reading for hours until our eyes and brain go numb--and you'll like it.
One of my two best books.--Roberto Bolaño