| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780312427481 | | Publisher: Picador USA | | Publish Date: 4/1/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 205618956 | | Item#: | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 66066 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8.25H x 5.25L x 1.25T | | Pages: 592 |
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| | | | ""I've been cordially invited to join the visceral realists. I accepted, of course. There was no initiation ceremony. It was better that way.".." (from the first line) This dazzling novel that established Bolano's international reputation is the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through their darkening world.
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A multitude of fascinating characters recount the travels of avant-garde poets Arturo Belano and Uliss Lima, the heroes of exiled-Chilean novelist Roberto Belano's THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES. Acting as a literary prism, THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES produces a scintillating spectrum of events, people, and ideas--a modern masterpiece of Latin American fiction.
| Praise| "Bolano fashions an engrossing lost world of youth and utopian ambition, as particular and vivid as it sad and uncontainable." (starred review) 12/11/2006 "THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES is good art. When it is dark, it is very dark. At other times, it is very funny, thrilling tender, and erotic. At its best, it is dark, funny, thrilling, tender, and erotic at one and the same time, in a way few novels before it have been." - Alex Abramovich 04/01/2007 "Marvelous, sad, finally sustaining." - James Wood 04/15/2007 |
| Author Bio| Roberto Bolano | | Roberto Bolaño, a Chilean poet and novelist, spent most of his life in exile from his native country. He grew up in Mexico with his parents, returned to Chile in 1972 to support President Allende, was jailed briefly after the rise of General Pinochet, fled back to Mexico and eventually settled in Spain. Despite these political influences, Bolaño rejected overtly political literature, writing sprawling, anarchistic, and satirical works that often dealt with wandering poets and the fecundity of Latin American life. He died in 2003 from longstanding liver problems. The following years saw a profusion of English translations of his work, including his masterpiece, THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES. |
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