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| Original Title: | El gaucho insufrible |
| ISBN: | 0811217167 (ISBN13: 9780811217163) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Premio Altazor for Narrativa (2004) |
Roberto Bolaño
Hardcover | Pages: 164 pages Rating: 3.83 | 2319 Users | 230 Reviews
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As Pankaj Mishra remarked in The Nation, one of the remarkable qualities of Bolano's short stories is that they can do the "work of a novel." The Insufferable Gaucho contains tales bent on returning to haunt you. Unpredictable, daring, and highly controlled, yet somehow haywire, a Bolano story might concern an elusive plagiarist, or an elderly lawyer giving up city life for an improbable return to the family estate, now gone to wrack and ruin. Bolano's stories have been applauded as "bleakly luminous and perfectly calibrated" (Publishers Weekly) and"complex and provocative" (International Herald Tribune), and as Francine Prose said in The New York Times Book Review, "something extraordinarily beautiful and (at least to me) entirely new." Two fascinating essays are also included.
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| Title | : | The Insufferable Gaucho |
| Author | : | Roberto Bolaño |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 164 pages |
| Published | : | August 31st 2010 by New Directions (first published April 2003) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Writing. Essays. Cultural. Latin American. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Literature. Latin American Literature |
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Ratings: 3.83 From 2319 Users | 230 ReviewsCritique Appertaining To Books The Insufferable Gaucho
This is very much a so-so collection from Bolaño. The fiction stories didnt do anything for me, which is strange because Ive always enjoyed Bolaño's strange view of the world. However, the end of this collection contains two non-fiction essays which are absolute sensations. Literature + Illness = Illness is a non-fiction collection of vignettes in which Bolaño discusses his life with the cancer that will eventually kill him. A stark piece which gives a pared back view into his mind and his
this is the first book by bolano that i have read,even though i own both the savage detectives and 2666, and i really liked it, which is quite surprising, because i don't generally enjoy short stories. they almost always seem to go nowhere and not have a proper ending. i'm always thinking what happens next?but i didn't find that to be the case with this book, which contains 5 short stories and 2 short essays.they all seemed complete in themselves to me, even the first one, jim, which is only 3
First foray into the work of Roberto Bolaño, and I'm very pleased. While I don't think this book necessarily qualifies Bolaño for inclusion among the greatest Latin American writers canon (Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortazar, et al), their work is really present in his, and that's a good sign. Something that's always drawn me to Latin American literature is the powerful sense of past and future contained within. It's not simply paying homage
I realize I am far from alone in my love of Roberto Bolaño. The five short stories and two essays collected in The Insufferable Gaucho, in common with everything else Ive read from this natural born expatriate, provide so much solace, companionship and validation that they make me want to be a writer too, a good one. Again, I presume Im far from alone in that reaction. I further presume that Bolaño has spawned far fewer insufferable writers than have been activated by some of the other authors
I give this 3 stars because I thought the title story, Insufferable Gaucho, was great. Funny and sad. A story inspired by Borges' 'The South', a perfect short story.But the book as a whole: meh.Nothing else stood out to me.All you have to do is read Bolano's Insufferable Gaucho online and you're happy.
The Insufferable Gaucho is a collection featuring five (longish) short stories and two essays - all of which contain some fantastic writing and all the hallmarks you'd expect from Balano. Of the short stories in the collection, two in particular stood out to me as wonderful examples of what the short story is truly capable of - dark, imaginative, narratives that truly take the reader to another time and place. Firstly, Police Rat, the story of a rat in a connecting channel of sewers
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