"Who Would Dare?"

After Camus, everything changed.  

An essay from Between Parentheses (ed. Ignacio Echevarria, trans. Natasha Wimmer, forthcoming in May) is posted at the NYRblog. 

In "Who Would Dare?" Bolaño tells of his adventures as "book hijacker" and ponders the question of whether it was right for an author to recommend his own books to a man who was sentenced to death.

(via The Millions)

The 2011 Roberto Bolaño Reading Challenge

 

Sneak preview of Tres

31. I dreamt that Earth was finished. And the only human being to contemplate the end was Franz Kafka. In heaven, the Titans were fighting to the death. From a wrought-iron seat in Central Park, Kafka was watching the world burn.

For a limited period, a preview of poems from Bolaño's Tres can be accessed online at BOMB Magazine, Issue 115/Spring 2011.

The link is made available through subscription to FSG's Work in Progress. To subscribe, just sign up here.

Tres, translated by Laura Healy, is coming in September from New Directions.

See other related posts on Tres here.

The 2011 Roberto Bolaño Reading Challenge

 

Excerpt from The Third Reich

Speakesy has a short excerpt from The Third Reich (trans. Natasha Wimmer). Here.

The first chapter in Spanish can be accessed here (pdf format).

The 2011 Roberto Bolaño Reading Challenge

The Third Reich serialized in The Paris Review

The Paris Review announced in its blog that it will publish The Third Reich (translated by Natasha Wimmer, illustrated by Leanne Shapton) in four issues, after which it will appear in hardcover from FSG.

The 2011 Roberto Bolaño Reading Challenge

2666 read-along in March

Leeswammes and others are reading 2666 next month.

Details on how to join the read-along and the schedule here.

The 2011 Roberto Bolaño Reading Challenge