Return to the Dark Night

El Retorno

Douban

NeoDB

★ "2666" is a short story masterpiece by Bolaño that subverts imagination. It is a surreal literary maze that is more imaginative than "The Last Night on Earth".

☆Adventures in the chaotic dark night, memories trapped in nightmares, and inescapable loneliness. Thirteen dark and turbulent stories, some as strong as all-consuming acid, some as frenzied as ghostly shadows.

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The book consists of thirteen stories, written roughly between 1995 and 2000. A diverse cast of characters enters these stories, either actively or passively. From a literary-loving gang leader, an aging pornographic film star, and a football player possessing a certain kind of magic, to a soldier mistaken for an artist, a ghost witnessing his own afterlife, poets, exiles, and young people trapped in nightmares—these are all frequent characters in Bolaño's fiction. Together, they convey both lingering darkness and awe-inspiring light.

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These outstanding short stories from a giant of Latin American literature perfectly illustrate the fact that Bolaño writes with such elegance, passion and personal style that it is worth reading. ... Each story seems to turn the reader into a voyeur, catching the profile of chaotic lives and ghosts. - The Guardian

Bolaño tells these impossible stories with such daring vision that we can't say enough about them. We'll spoil them as little as possible, but rest assured, you've never read anything like it. —The New Yorker

Dark, secretive, and quietly touching. There is gold to be found in this collection of stories. - The New York Review of Books

The sense of being ready for battle animates his writing, and his obsession with digging deep into wounds makes "Back to the Night" a remarkable representative of his work. - Los Angeles Times

This collection of thirteen short stories is a typical example of Bolaño's writing style, and all his themes and favorite characters are included in it.

2021-03-01

世纪文景

Century Wenjing

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