Tres

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Tres
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Roberto Bolano
Translated by Laura Healy
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:176
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 130
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780330529990
ClassificationsDewey:861.64
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Pan Macmillan
Imprint Picador
Publication Date 28 February 2013
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Roberto Bolano's own preferred literary persona was as a poet and Tres is his most inventive and bracing collection. As the title implies, the collection is composed of three sections. Prose from Autumn in Gerona, a cinematic series of prose poems, slowly reveals a subtle and emotional tale of unrequited love by presenting each scene, shattering it, and piecing it all back together, over and over again. The second part, The Neochileans, is a sort of On the Road in verse, which narrates the travels of a young Chilean band on tour traveling north from Chile to Peru and Ecuador. Finally, the collection ends with a series of short poems that take us on A Stroll Through Literature reminding us of Bolano's masterful ability to walk the line between the comically serious and the seriously comical.

Author Biography

Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. He is the author of The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.

Reviews

In verse, as in prose, Bolano leads us on journeys through a surreal landscape of exile, longing, and nostalgia. * Independent *