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Antwerp
Translated
from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
ISBN 978-0-8112-1717-0; Online Ordering Antwerp’s signature elements — crimes and campgrounds, drifters and poetry, sex and love, corrupt cops and misfits — mark this, his first novel, as pure Bolaño. As
Bolaño’s friend and literary executor, Ignacio Echevarría,
once suggested, Antwerp can be viewed as the Big Bang
of Roberto Bolaño’s fictional universe. Reading this
novel, the reader is present at the birth of Bolaño’s enterprise
in prose: all the elements are here, highly compressed, at
the moment when his talent explodes. From this springboard
— which Bolaño chose to publish in 2002, twenty years after
he’d written it (“and even that I can’t be certain of”) — as
if testing out a high dive, he would plunge into the unexplored
depths of the modern novel.
Antwerp’s
fractured narration in 54 sections — voices from a dream, from
a nightmare, from passersby, from an omniscient narrator, from
“Roberto Bolaño” all speak — moves in multiple directions and
cuts to the bone.
“Never less than mesmerizing.” —The
Los Angeles Times
“Literature’s
new patron saint.”
—Sam
Anderson, New York Magazine
“The
real thing and the rarest.”
—Susan
Sontag
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