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100 1 $aBolaño, Roberto,$d1953-2003.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80139757
240 10 $aGaucho insufrible.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010032769
245 14 $aThe insufferable gaucho /$cRoberto Bolaño ; translated by Chris Andrews.
260 $aNew York :$bNew Directions,$c[2010], ©2010.
300 $a164 pages ;$c21 cm
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505 00 $tJim -- $tThe Insufferable Gaucho -- $tPolice Rat -- $tAlvaro Rousselot's Journey -- $tTwo Catholic Tales -- $tLiterature + Illness = Illness -- $tThe Myths of Cthulhu.
500 $aOriginally published in Spain in 2003 as El gaucho insufrible.
500 $aIncludes five stories, two essays.
520 1 $a""We savor all he has written as every offering is a portal into the elaborate terrain of his genius."---Patti Smith" ""The short story can be as capacious a form as the novel---as one Bolano narrator remarks, T̀he story was four pages long; maybe that's why I chose it, because it was short, but when I got to the end, I felt as if I had read a novel.' That, of course, is the effect of many of Bolano's stories."---Siddhartha Deb, Harper's" ""Electrifying."---Time" ""Bolano's prose marries humor and irony, violence and love, poetry and death. In several essays Borges recast Hamlet's final words: And all the rest is literature. A good disciple (and there-fore a rebel), Bolano arrived at his own interpretation, one that is more pertinent to the tragic destiny of his beloved Chile (and, indeed, much of Latin America): And all the rest is laughter."---Aura Estrada, Bookforum" ""Enthralling and haunting."---Francisco Goldman" ""A once-in-a-blue-moon rhapsodic reading experience."---Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times" "In addition to five brilliant new stories, The Insufferable Gaucho offers for the first time in English two essays by Roberto Bolano: "Literature+Illness=Illness" and "The Myths of Cthulhu." Provocative and often scathing, Bolano's essays were described as "treasure, odd glittering jewels and fistfuls of gold," by Marcela Valdes in The Nation: "In the essays, we hear Bolano's real voice, the one he often disguised through the ventriloquism of his fiction."" "The stories in The Insufferable Gaucho---unpredictable and daring, highly controlled yet somehow haywire---might concern a stalwartrat police detective investigating terible rodent crimes, or an elusive plagiarist, or an elderly Argentine judge giving up city life for an improbable return to the family estate, now gone to wrack and ruin. The Insufferable Gaucho shows Bolano as a magician of a writer, pulling bloodthirsty rabbits out of his hat."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aShort stories, Spanish.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85121942
650 0 $aSpanish essays.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126246
650 0 $aSpanish literature$vTranslations into English.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010114405
700 1 $aAndrews, Chris,$d1962-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88103288
852 00 $bglx$hPQ8098.12.O38$iG3813 2010