by Roberto Bolaño · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433973252
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«El gaucho insufrible» is Roberto Bolaño's collection of short stories and lectures, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (182 pages, in Spanish).
The volume brings together five short stories and two lectures. It features an Argentine lawyer turned gaucho, a sewer detective, a writer plagiarized by a filmmaker, and a teenager facing a killer; the lectures mix literature and illness and survey the literary scene.
«El gaucho insufrible» is volume 469 of the Compactos collection and received the Altazor Prize for Narrative in 2004.
For readers of contemporary fiction and short fiction, and for those wishing to complete Roberto Bolaño's oeuvre.
Roberto Bolaño Ávalos was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. In 1999, Bolaño won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel The Savage Detectives, and in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666, which was described by board member Marcela Valdes as a "work so rich and dazzling that it will surely draw readers and scholars for ages".
