The Third Reich Roberto Bolano The Paris Review, Volumes 196 – 199, New York, 2011 These four volumes of the Paris Review constitute the true first English language printing of The Third Reich. Bolano wrote this novel in 1989, but never published it during his lifetime. It was found amongst his papers after his death [...]
Roberto Bolano By Night in Chile The Harvill Press, U.K. 2003 This book is very intriguing to me. To start off with a slight aside, like many serious book collectors, I do not understand why advance readers copies are not more valuable than they usually are. Also called uncorrected proofs, or advance review copies, these [...]
Amulet — ARC Roberto Bolano New Directions, New York, 2006 Here is an advance review copy of Amulet, Bolano’s first short novel to come out in English after his epic masterpiece The Savage Detectives. It was originally published in Spain in 1999. The main character of Amulet appeared first in The Savage Detectives. From the [...]
The Savage Detectives — ARC + reading copy Roberto Bolano Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York, 2007 Since I posted the British first edition on New Year’s Eve, I thought, for comparison’s sake, I would hurry up and showcase the U.S. edition — in this case, an advance readers copy and an 8th printing paperback. [...]
The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolano Picador, London, 2007 Leaders of a poetry movement called ‘visceral realism’ set out in search of its originator, Cesarea Tinajero, an obscure poet, unheard of for a decade. This first large novel of Roberto Bolano’s, published in English four years after his untimely death at just 50 years old, is [...]
The Return — ARC Roberto Bolano New Directions, New York, 2000 Here is the advance review copy of The Return, Bolano’s second book of short stories and his 11th book to be translated into English. From Publishers Weekly: ”The stories have a subdued quality, from underworld confessionals like ‘Snow’ and ‘Joanna Silvestri’ to tender reminiscences like [...]
2666 Roberto Bolano Farrar, Straus and Giroux, U.S.A. 2008 As I have said before, I haven’t been as excited about a writer in a long time as I am about Roberto Bolano. What an original voice! 2666 is touted as his masterpiece, but his previous tour de force The Savage Detectives, to me, is equally brilliant. [...]
Last Evenings on Earth Roberto Bolano New Directions, New York, 2006 Last Evenings on Earth was Bolano’s first collection of short fiction to be translated into English. Here’s a great description of this book from Wikipedia: “Set amid the diaspora of Chilean exiles in Latin America and Europe, the fourteen stories in Last Evenings on Earth [...]
Monsieur Pain Roberto Bolano New Directions, U.S.A. 2010 Here is a recent Bolano advance readers copy. In pictorial paper wraps the same as the first hardcover edition, and with a proper copyright page, this publication is a fairly standard advance review issue. Check my post for Roberto Bolano’s By Night In Chile to see an earlier [...]
Amulet Roberto Bolano New Directions, New York, 2006 Amulet is another of the many Bolano works of fiction that have come out in English since his untimely death in 2003. It expands on the story of a character from his epic novel The Savage Detectives. Auxilio Lacouture, the self-titled Mother of Mexican poetry, tells her story [...]