Sepulcros de Vaqueros / Graves of the Cowboys

Este volumen incluye tres nouvelles inditas -«Patria , «Sepulcros de vaqueros y «Comedia del horror de Francia - en las que est presente lo mejor del genio literario del autor chileno: el Mal, la violencia, la historia, la literatura, la irona, Mxico, Chile, el amor, el suspense, la bsqueda... a lo que se suma alguno de sus personajes ms clebres, como el ubicuo detective salvaje Arturo Belano.

"Hablar de las novelas y los cuentos de Roberto Bolao como fragmentarios resulta parcial, puesto que cada fragmento depende de una unidad en constante movimiento, en un verdadero proceso de creacin que es al mismo tiempo consolidacin de un universo. (...) La imaginacin desbordada, la intensidad de los sentimientos, la incisiva crtica, la febril actividad o los extraos personajes hacen de Sepulcros de vaqueros un libro enormemente atractivo y original."
Del prlogo de Juan Antonio Masoliver Rdenas

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

One more journey to the universe of Roberto Bolao, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literature

Cowboy Graves is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent. Roberto Bolao's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into fiction is unmistakable in these three novellas. In "Cowboy Graves," Arturo Belano--Bolao's alter ego--returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades for socialism. "French Comedy of Horrors," takes the reader to French Guiana on the night after an eclipse where a seventeen year old answers a pay phone and finds himself recruited into the Clandestine Surrealist Group, a secret society of artists based in the sewers of Paris. And in "Fatherland," a young poet reckons with the fascist overthrow of his country, as the woman he is obsessed with disappears in the ensuing violence and a Third Reich fighter plane mysteriously writes her poetry in the sky overhead.

These three fiercely original tales bear the signatures of Bolao's extraordinary body of work, echoing the strange characters and uncanny scenes of his triumphs, while deepening our reverence for his gifts.