La irrupción de Roberto Bolaño indudablemente ha revolucionado las letras contemporáneas, influyendo a un sinfín de autores y provocando innumerables críticas e interpretaciones. Mónica Maristain se inserta en ese ejercicio interpretativo, pero desde una perspectiva puramente personal, desde el escudriñamiento de Bolaño como persona. Sirviéndose de una rigurosa documentación y a la vez de un tono familiar e íntimo, El hijo de Míster Playa traza el mapa de la vida de Bolaño a través de las personas que lo conocieron, a través de su propia voz y de las anécdotas que de él quedaron.

El hijo de Mister Playa: Una semblanza de Roberto Bolaño (Spanish Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Maristain, Monica

Arts & Literature

Sudaquia Editores

The first biography of Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño, the author of the international bestsellers The Savage Detectives and 2666 How to know the man behind works of fiction so prone to extravagance? In the first biography of Chilean novelist and poet Roberto Bolaño, journalist Mónica Maristain tracks Bolaño from his childhood in Chile to his youth in Mexico and his early infatuation with literature, to years of tremendous literary productivity in Spain, and to his untimely death and the posthumous and unprecedented stardom that came with the international publication of his novels The Savage Detectives and 2666. Bolaño: A Biography in Conversations is assembled from a series of rich interviews with the people who knew Bolaño best: we meet Bolaño's first publisher, who printed 225 copies of his first book of poetry; are introduced to his parents and an array of childhood friends, who watched a precocious young man turn into an obsessive writer who barely left the house; and witness the birth of Bolaño's famed Infrarealist literary movement. The book also sheds new light on aspects of Bolaño's life taht have long been shrouded in mystery: for the first time, we learn the details of his final illness and the drama of his final days. Throughout the book, Maristain present an image far removed from the stereotypes that have been created over the years, with the aim of reintroducing the man whose works grabbed readers worldwide. Maristain writes as a journalist and admirer, impressed with the power of Bolaño’s prose and the cool irony with which he faced the literary world.

Bolano: A Biography in Conversations

Melville House

The first biography of Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño, the author of the international bestsellers The Savage Detectives and 2666How to know the man behind works of fiction so prone to extravagance? In the first biography of Chilean novelist and poet Roberto Bolaño, journalist Mónica Maristain tracks Bolaño from his childhood in Chile to his youth in Mexico and his early infatuation with literature, to years of tremendous literary productivity in Spain, and to his untimely death and the posthumous and unprecedented stardom that came with the international publication of his novels The Savage Detectives and 2666.Bolaño: A Biography in Conversations is assembled from a series of rich interviews with the people who knew Bolaño best: we meet Bolaño's first publisher, who printed 225 copies of his first book of poetry; are introduced to his parents and an array of childhood friends, who watched a precocious young man turn into an obsessive writer who barely left the house; and witness the birth of Bolaño's famed Infrarealist literary movement. The book also sheds new light on aspects of Bolaño's life taht have long been shrouded in mystery: for the first time, we learn the details of his final illness and the drama of his final days.Throughout the book, Maristain present an image far removed from the stereotypes that have been created over the years, with the aim of reintroducing the man whose works grabbed readers worldwide. Maristain writes as a journalist and admirer, impressed with the power of Bolaño’s prose and the cool irony with which he faced the literary world.From the Hardcover edition.

Presents illustrated commentaries on one hundred Soccer players from Latin countries that play, or have played, at the highest levels throughout the world, including such stars as Maradona, Zizou, Ronaldo, and Figo.

Futbolistas: El Club de los 100 Latinos (Spanish Edition)

Community & Culture

Ediciones B.

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El hijo de Mister Playa: Una semblanza de Roberto Bolaño (Spanish Edition)

Bolano: A Biography in Conversations

Bolano: A Biography in Conversations

Futbolistas: El Club de los 100 Latinos (Spanish Edition)