Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. His first full-length novel, The Savage Detectives, won the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize, and Natasha Wimmer¿s translation of The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and the New York Times. Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty. Described by the New York Times as "the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation", in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666.
Section - i: Nota de los herederos del autor / Note from the author
s heirs Unit - 1: PRIMERA PARTE / PART ONE Chapter - 1: La novela-nieve / The Snow-Novel Chapter - 2: Guiraut de Bornelh / Guiraut de Bornelh Chapter - 3: Calles de Barcelona / Streets of Barcelona Chapter - 4: En la sala de lecturas del Infierno / In the Reading Room of Hell Chapter - 5: San Roberto de Troya / Saint Roberto of Troy Chapter - 6: Nada malo me ocurrirá / Nothing Bad Will Happen to Me Chapter - 7: Tu lejano corazón / Your Distant Heart Unit - 2: SEGUNDA PARTE / PART TWO Chapter - 8: Tres textos / Three Texts Chapter - 9: Gente que se aleja / People Walking Away Chapter - 10: Iceberg / Iceberg Chapter - 11: Prosa del otoño en Gerona / Prose from Autumn in Gerona Chapter - 12: Manifiestos y posiciones / Manifestos and Positions Unit - 3: TERCERA PARTE / PART THREE Chapter - 13: Poemas perdidos / Lost Poems Chapter - 14: Nueve poemas / Nine Poems Chapter - 15: Mi vida en los tubos de supervivencia / My Life in the Tubes of Survival Chapter - 16: Un final feliz / A Happy Ending Section - ii: [Notas del autor, sin título] / [Author
s notes, untitled] Section - iii: Breve historia del libro / Brief history of the book, by Carolina López Index - iv: Índice de títulos y primeras líneas en Español / Index of English titles and first lines Section - v: Translator
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