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"Return to the Dark Night" Series: Bolaño in Wenjing Author: [Chile] Roberto Bolaño Publisher: Shanghai People's Publishing House
"Return to the Dark Night" Series: Bolaño in Wenjing Author: [Chile] Roberto Bolaño Publisher: Shanghai People's Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
★ "2666" is a short story masterpiece by Bolaño that subverts imagination. It is a surreal literary maze that is more imaginative than "The Last Night on Earth".
☆An adventure in the dark night, trapped in nightmare memories, and inescapable loneliness. Thirteen dark and twisted stories, some as strong as the acid that corrodes everything, and some as frenzied as the shadow of a ghost.
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The book consists of thirteen stories, which were written roughly between 1995 and 2000. Various protagonists break into the book actively or passively. From a gang leader who loves literature, an aging pornographic movie star, From a magical football player to a soldier mistaken for an artist, to a ghost who witnesses his own afterlife, to poets, exiles, young people trapped in nightmares, and other frequent characters in Bolaño's novels, they all tell the story of the The lingering darkness and the amazing light.
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These outstanding short stories from a giant of Latin American literature perfectly illustrate the fact that Bolaño writes with such grace, passion, and personal style that they are worth reading. … Each story seems to transform the reader into a Voyeur, capturing the chaotic life and the silhouette of ghosts. - The Guardian
Bolaño tells these impossible stories in great detail with his bold vision. We'll spoil it as little as possible, but rest assured, you've never read anything like it. --The New Yorker
Dark, secretive, quietly touching. There is gold to be found in this collection of stories. - The New York Review of Books
The sense of being ready for battle animates his writing, and his obsession with digging deep into wounds makes Return to the Dark a striking representative of his series of works. - Los Angeles Times
This collection of thirteen short stories is a typical sample of Bolaño's writing style, with all the themes he cares about and the characters he prefers. ——Booklist
About the Author · · · · · ·
Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003)
Born in Chile, his father was a truck driver and amateur boxer, and his mother taught mathematics and statistics at school. In 1968, his family moved to Mexico. In 1973, Bolaño returned to Chile to join the socialist revolution but was arrested and almost killed. After fleeing back to Mexico, he and his friends promoted the "Infrarealism" movement that combined surrealism, Dadaism and street theater, intending to inspire young people in Latin America to love life and literature. In 1977, he went to Europe and finally married and settled in Costa del Boracay, Spain. In 2003, he died in Barcelona at the age of 50 due to liver damage and unable to wait for an organ transplant.
Bolaño did not start writing novels until he was nearly 40 years old, but the number of his works is astonishing, leaving behind ten novels, four short story collections and three poetry collections. The sensation caused by "The Savage Detectives" published in 1998 in the Latin American literary world is no less than the grand occasion when "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was published 30 years ago. And the "2666" published after his death has aroused overwhelming praise from European and American public opinion, all of which praised it as a masterpiece, great, milestone, genius, etc. Many writers such as Susan Sontag, John Banville, Colm Toibin, Stephen King, etc. have praised Bolaño, and some critics believe that the publication of this book has brought the author to the same level as Cervantes, Sterne, Melville, Proust, Musil and Pynchon.
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