Antwerp (New Directions Pearls)

ISBN: 0811219917

Author: Bola?o, Roberto

Condition: Used

Bolaos radical first novel makes its paperback debut as a New Directions Pearl.Written when he was only twenty-seven, Antwerp can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolaos fictional universe. This novel presents the genesis of Bolaos enterprise in prose; all the elements are here, highly compressed, at the moment when his talent explodes. From this springboard-which Bolao chose to publish in 2002, twenty years after hed written it (and even that I cant be certain of)-as if testing out a high dive, he would plunge into the unexplored depths of the modern novel.Voices speak from a dream, from a nightmare, from passersby, from an omniscient narrator, from Roberto Bolao. Antwerps fractured narration in fifty-four sections moves in multiple directions and cuts to the bone.