Roberto Bolano

The Last Interview

Roberto Bolano, Sybil Perez, Marcela Valdes

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Random House
15 January 2012

Autobiography: literary; Literature, Poetry & Criticism

"With the release of Roberto Bolano's The Savage Detectives in 1998,journalist Monica Maristain discovered a writer ""capable of befriending his readers."" After exchanging several letters with Bolano, Maristain formed a friendship of her own, culminating in an extensive interview with the novelist about truth and consequences, an interview that turned out to be Bolano's last.

Appearing for the first time in English, Bolano's final interview is accompanied by a collection of conversations with reporters stationed throughout Latin America, providing a rich context for the work of the writer who, according

to essayist Marcela Valdes, is ""a T.S. Eliot or Virginia Woolf of Latin American letters."" As in all of Bolano's work, there is also wide-ranging discussion of the author's many literary influences. (Explanatory notes on authors and titles that may be unfamiliar to English-language readers are included here.)

The interviews, all of which were completed during the writing of the gigantic

2666, also address Bolano's deepest personal concerns, from his domestic life and two young children to the realities of a fatal disease."

By: Roberto Bolano
Introduction by: Marcela Valdes
Translated by: Sybil Perez
Imprint: Random House
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 207mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 140g
ISBN: 9781612190952
ISBN 10: 1612190952
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 15 January 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Roberto Bolano: The Last Interview

“The real thing and the rarest.” –Susan Sontag “By writing across the grain of his doubts about what literature can do, how much it can discover or dare pronounce the names of our world’s disasters, Bolaño has proven it can do anything, and for an instant, at least, given a name to the unnamable.” –Jonathan Lethem