the spirit of science fiction by roberto bolaño

Bolaño adroitly braids three related narratives.

“ The Spirit of Science Fiction is structured unconventionally, enticing the reader to solve its mysteries. longtime Bolaño fans will doubtless enjoy this familiar cocktail of sorrow and ecstasy.” - Paris Review The Spirit of Science Fiction functions as a kind of key to the jeweled box of Bolaño’s fictions, an index of the images that would come to obsess him. “ is a kinetic, epiphanic writer, and even his earliest works tremble like a whirring, unpredictable machine. is a hardy forerunner that stands on its own.” - The New York Times Book Review serves as a key to Bolano’s later work, unlocking clues to his abiding obsessions. admirers will find in these themes and players a satisfying proleptic glimpse of his picaresque masterpiece, 1998’s The Savage Detectives. “With words alone, Bolaño summons a visual world, creating in this book, as in his others, what Mario Vargas Llosa has called ‘images and fantasies for posterity’. Praise for The Spirit of Science Fiction: 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. This kaleidoscopic work of strange and tender beauty is a fitting introduction for readers uninitiated into the thrills of Roberto Bolaño's fiction, and an indispensable addition to an ecstatic and transgressive body of work. Meanwhile, Remo runs headfirst into the future, spending his days and nights with a circle of wild young writers, seeking pleasure in the city's labyrinthine streets, rundown cafés, and murky bathhouses.

Jan withdraws from the world, shutting himself in their shared rooftop apartment where he feverishly composes fan letters to the stars of science fiction and dreams of cosmonauts and Nazis. Roberto Bolaño's The Spirit of Science Fiction is a story of youth hungry for revolution, notoriety, and sexual adventure, as they work to construct a reality out of the fragments of their dreams.īut as close as these friends are, the city tugs them in opposite directions. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life in the literary world-or sacrifice themselves to it.

Two young poets, Jan and Remo, find themselves adrift in Mexico City. From a master of contemporary fiction, a tale of bohemian youth on the make in Mexico City

The spirit of science fiction by roberto bolaño