Perhaps surprisingly to some of his fiction fans, Roberto Bolaño touted poetry as the superior art form. When asked, "What makes you believe you're a better poet than a novelist?" Bolaño replied, "The poetry makes me blush less".
In 1993, fearing for his health, Bolaño began collecting the poetry he had written since his arrival in Spain in 1977. This bilingual edition of The Unknown University represents the author's definitive work in his preferred medium.
With poems written in prose, stories in verse, and flashes of writing that can hardly be categorized, The Unknown University is a showcase of Bolano's gift for freely crossing genres. It confirms once again the undeniable genius of this giant of Latin American literature.
Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. He is the author of The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He died in Blanes, Spain, aged fifty.
ISBN:
9780330529976
Binding:
Paperback
Pub. Date:
01/03/2015
Category:
Poetry
Imprint:
Picador
Pages:
848 page/s
Stock:
To order
Price:
$19.99 AUD