Bolaño
Subtitle: a biography in conversations
By: Mónica Maristain ; translated by Kit Maude
Contributors: Maude, Kit, translator
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781612193472
Subjects: Friends and associates; Chilean Authors; Biography; Authors
Work titles: Hijo de Míster Playa
Description: 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 his beginnings as a poet, and to the stardom that came with the publication of the novels The Savage Detectives and 2666. Throughout the book, Maristain present an image far removed from the stereotypes that have been created over the years to introduce a writer 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.
Notes: Translation from the Spanish of: El hijo de Míster Playa : una semblanza de Roberto Bolaño.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index.