Antwerp

by Roberto Bolaño

Book Overview

Written when he was only twenty-seven, Antwerp can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolano's fictional universe. This novel presents the genesis of Bolano's enterprise in prose; all the elements are here, highly compressed, at the moment when his talent explodes. From this springboard--which Bolano chose to publish in 2002, twenty years after he'd written it ("and even that I can't be certain of")--as if testing out a high dive, he would plunge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811219917
• ISBN13: 9780811219914
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.3" x 6.8"