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''If you''re going to say what you want to say, you''re going to hear what you don''t want to hear...'' A rat policeman comes to the startling realisation that each rat is out for themselves. An elderly judge gives up his job in the city for an improbable return to the family farm in the Pampas. An elusive film-maker and the little-known Argentinian novelist whose work he''s plagiarized for years, finally fall into confrontation. Unpredictable and daring, highly controlled and yet somehow haywire, the five short stories included in The Insufferable Gaucho are some of Roberto Bolano''s best. In addition, two essays are included: provocative and often scathing, they too are alive with Bolano''s trademark humour, violence and utter faith in the power of the written word. TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS ''An exemplary literary rebel'' New York Review of Books ''A master of the short form'' Independent ''Bolano wrote with the high-voltage first-person braininess of a Saul Bellow and an extreme subversive vision of his own'' New York Times
About the author
Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealism poetry movement. Described by the New York Times as ‘the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation’, he was the author of over twenty works, including The Savage Detectives, which received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998, and 2666, which posthumously won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty, just as his writing found global recognition.
