Between Parentheses
内容简介
The essays of Roberto Bolaño in English at last.
Between Parentheses collects most of the newspaper columns and articles Bolaño wrote during the last five years of his life, as well as the texts of some of his speeches and talks and a few scattered prologues. “Taken together,” as the editor Ignacio Echevarría remarks in his introduction, they provide “a personal cartography of the writer: the closest thing, among all his writings, to a kind of fragmented ‘autobiography.’” Bolaño’s career as a nonfiction writer began in 1998, the year he became famous overnight for The Savage Detectives; he was suddenly in demand for articles and speeches, and he took to this new vocation like a duck to water. Cantankerous, irreverent, and insufferably opinionated, Bolaño also could be tender (about his family and favorite places) as well as a fierce advocate for his heroes (Borges, Cortázar, Parra) and his favorite contemporaries, whose books he read assiduously and promoted generously. A demanding critic, he declares that in his “ideal literary kitchen there lives a warrior”: he argues for courage, and especially for bravery in the face of failure. Between Parentheses fully lives up to his own demands: “I ask for creativity from literary criticism, creativity at all levels.”
......(更多)
作者简介
Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) was born in Santiago, Chile, and later lived in Mexico, Paris, and Spain. He has been acclaimed “by far the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time” (Ilan Stavans, The Los Angeles Times),” and as “the real thing and the rarest” (Susan Sontag). Among his many prizes are the extremely prestigious Herralde de Novela Award and the Premio Rómulo Gallegos. He was widely considered to be the greatest Latin American writer of his generation. He wrote nine novels, two story collections, and five books of poetry, before dying in July 2003 at the age of 50.
......(更多)
目录
Contents
Introduction
Preface: Self-Portrait
1. Three Insufferable Speeches
The Vagaries of the Literature of Doom
Caracas Address
Literature and Exile
2. Fragments of a Return to the Native Land
Exiles
Fragments of a Return to the Native Land
The Corridor with No Apparent Way Out
Words from Outer Space
A Modest Proposal
Out in the Cold
Chilean Poetry Under Inclement Skies
On Bruno Montané
Eight Seconds with Nicanor Parra
The Lost
The Transparent Mystery of José Donoso
On Literature, the National Literature Prize, and the Rare Consolations of the Writing Life
3. Between Parentheses
i january 1999–april 2000
The Best Gang
The Women Readers of Winter
Pastry Cooks
The Bookseller
Tomeo
Memoirs
Springtime in Blanes
Chilean Literature
Ferdydurke in Catalan
Berlin
Civilization
The Poet Olvido García Valdés
Roberto Brodsky
July Stories
A. G. Porta
Friends Are Strange
Planes
Dimas Luna, Prince
Ana María Navales
Hell’s Angels
The Ghost of Àngel Planells
Blanes Christmas Story
ii may 1999–july 2001
An Afternoon with Huidobro and Parra
Lichtenberg in the Face of Death
Sergio Pitol
The Incredible César Aira
Memories of Juan Villoro
Hannibal by Thomas Harris
Miguel Casado: Poet
The Rapier-Sharp Pen of Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Osvaldo Lamborghini: Martyr
Sara and Steva
Mosley
Borges and the Ravens
Sun and Skull
The Sinaloa Story
Burroughs
Neuman, Touched by Grace
Courage
Wilcock
Puigdevall the Strange
Javier Cercas Comes Home
Neruda
Pezoa Véliz
Una casa para siempre
Grass’s Century
The Rhapsode of Blanes
A Soul Sold to the Devil
The Ancestor
The Novel as Puzzle
A Perfect Story
Alphonse Daudet
Jonathan Swift
Ernesto Cardenal
A Novel by Turgenev
Horacio Castellanos Moya
Borges and Paracelsus
Javier Cercas’s New Novel
Braque: Illustrated Notebooks
Il Sodoma
Writers Lost in the Distance
Philip K. Dick
The Book that Survives
Blood Meridian
Troubadours
Herralde
Speculations on a Remark by Breton
An Attempt at an Exhaustive Catalog of Patrons
iii september 2002–january 2003
Jim
The Suicide of Gabriel Ferrater
Rodrigo Rey Rosa in Mali (I Think)
A Few Words for Enrique Lihn
All Subjects with Fresán
Memories of Los Ángeles
Autobiographies: Amis & Ellroy
The Curious Mr. Alan Pauls
Javier Aspurúa at His Own Funeral
The Real Way to Get to Madrid
The Bukowski of Havana
Sergio González Rodríguez in the Eye of the Storm
84, Charing Cross Road
Jaume Vallcorba and the Prizes
Titian Paints a Sick Man
Pages Written on Jacob’s Ladder
Translation Is an Anvil
Humor in the Wings
4. Scenes
Town Crier of Blanes
The Maritime Jungle
Beach
In Search of the Torico of Teruel
Vienna and the Shadow of a Woman
The Last Place on the Map
Fateful Characters
5. The Brave Librarian
Our Guide to the Abyss
The Mad Inventors
Words and Deeds
Vila-Matas’s Latest Book
The Brave Librarian
Bomarzo
Two Novels by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Cubs, Again
The Prince of the Apocalypse
Notes on Jaime Bayly
A Stroll Through the Abyss
Sevilla Kills Me
6. The Private Life of a Novelist
Who Would Dare?
The Private Life of a Novelist
Advice on the Art of Writing Short Stories
About The Savage Detectives
The End: “Distant Star” (Interview with Mónica Maristain)
Sources
Index
......(更多)
读书文摘
......(更多)
