Author of 2666 and many other acclaimed works, Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) was born in Santiago, Chile, and later lived in Mexico, Paris, and Spain. He has been acclaimed "by far the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time" (Ilan Stavans, The Los Angeles Times)," and as "the real thing and the rarest" (Susan Sontag). Among his many prizes are the extremely prestigious Herralde de Novela Award and the Premio Romulo Gallegos. He was widely considered to be the greatest Latin American writer of his generation. He wrote nine novels, two story collections, and five books of poetry, before dying in July 2003 at the age of 50. The poet Chris Andrews has translated many books by Roberto Bolano and Cesar Aira for New Directions.
"A very good read and essential for Bolano completists." -- Craig Morgan Teicher - The Plain Dealer "John Coltrane jamming with the Sex Pistols." -- John M. Richardson - Esquire "Roberto Bolano was an examplary literary rebel. To drag fiction toward the unknown, he had to go there himself, and there invent a method with which to represent it. Since the unknown place was reality, the results are multi-dimensional." -- Sarah Kerr - The New York Review of Books "Bolano wrote with the high-voltage first-person braininess of a Saul Bellow and an extreme subversive vision of his own." -- Francisco Goldman - The New York Times Magazine "Delightfully noirish." -- Brad Hooper - Booklist "Monsieur Pain, an early novella, beautifully translated by Chris Andrews, joins his other works in all their aching splendour." -- Carolina de Robertis - National Post "A heightened sense of analogy aligns careless deserters, serious moviegoers and sold-out psychics to a world of labyrinthine visions..." -- Roberto Ontiveros - The Dallas Morning News "A real discovery and a substantial addition to the growing Bolano library in English." -- Stephen Henighan - The Quarterly Conversation
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