Descripción
One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century "A masterpiece." --The New Yorker Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, two modern Quixotes, set out in search of Cesárea Tinajero, the mysterious writer who disappeared in Mexico in the years following the revolution. This search --the journey and its consequences-- extends over twenty years, branching out through numerous characters and continents, with settings such as Mexico, Nicaragua, the United States, France, and Spain, and characters including a Spanish photographer on the verge of despair, a neo-Nazi, a retired Mexican bullfighter living in the desert, a French student who reads Sade, a teenage prostitute constantly on the run, a Galician lawyer wounded by poetry, and a Mexican editor pursued by gunmen. The Savage Detectives is a novel where there is everything: loves and deaths, murders and escapes, asylums and universities, disappearances and apparitions. The Savage Detectives is the novel that launched Roberto Bolaño to international literary fame before 2666 cemented his reputation forever. The book won the Herralde Novel Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize, and was one of the books of the year for The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times Book Review.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century A National Bestseller
New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run. The explosive first long work by "the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time" (Ilan Stavans, Los Angeles Times), The Savage Detectives follows Belano and Lima through the eyes of the people whose paths they cross in Central America, Europe, Israel, and West Africa. This chorus includes the muses of visceral realism, the beautiful Font sisters; their father, an architect interned in a Mexico City asylum; a sensitive young follower of Octavio Paz; a foul-mouthed American graduate student; a French girl with a taste for the Marquis de Sade; the great-granddaughter of Leon Trotsky; a Chilean stowaway with a mystical gift for numbers; the anorexic heiress to a Mexican underwear empire; an Argentinian photojournalist in Angola; and assorted hangers-on, detractors, critics, lovers, employers, vagabonds, real-life literary figures, and random acquaintances. A polymathic descendant of Borges and Pynchon, Roberto Bolaño traces the hidden connection between literature and violence in a world where national boundaries are fluid and death lurks in the shadow of the avant-garde. The Savage Detectives is a dazzling original, the first great Latin American novel of the twenty-first century.
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Publisher: Vintage Espanol
Published: 05/16/2017
Pages: 624
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 1.60d
ISBN13: 9780307476111
ISBN10: 0307476111
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Action & Adventure
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Hispanic & Latino | General
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century A National Bestseller
New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run. The explosive first long work by "the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time" (Ilan Stavans, Los Angeles Times), The Savage Detectives follows Belano and Lima through the eyes of the people whose paths they cross in Central America, Europe, Israel, and West Africa. This chorus includes the muses of visceral realism, the beautiful Font sisters; their father, an architect interned in a Mexico City asylum; a sensitive young follower of Octavio Paz; a foul-mouthed American graduate student; a French girl with a taste for the Marquis de Sade; the great-granddaughter of Leon Trotsky; a Chilean stowaway with a mystical gift for numbers; the anorexic heiress to a Mexican underwear empire; an Argentinian photojournalist in Angola; and assorted hangers-on, detractors, critics, lovers, employers, vagabonds, real-life literary figures, and random acquaintances. A polymathic descendant of Borges and Pynchon, Roberto Bolaño traces the hidden connection between literature and violence in a world where national boundaries are fluid and death lurks in the shadow of the avant-garde. The Savage Detectives is a dazzling original, the first great Latin American novel of the twenty-first century.
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Publisher: Vintage Espanol
Published: 05/16/2017
Pages: 624
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 1.60d
ISBN13: 9780307476111
ISBN10: 0307476111
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Action & Adventure
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Hispanic & Latino | General
About the Author
Roberto Bolaño nació en Santiago, Chile, en 1953. Pasó gran parte de su vida en México y en España, donde murió a la edad de cincuenta años. Es autor de numerosas obras de ficción, no ficción y poesía. Su libro Los detectives salvajes ganó el Premio Rómulo Gallegos de Novela y fue uno de los Mejores Libros del 2007 para The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times y The New York Times Book Review. En 2008, recibió póstumamente el Premio de Ficción del National Book Critics Circle por 2666.