Amulet

Auxilio Lacouture is trapped. For twelve days she hides alone in a lavatory on the fourth floor of her university. Staring at the floor, she begins a heartfelt and feverish tale: she is the Mother of Mexican poetry. A highly charged first-person semi-hallucinatory novella, Amulet is a potent stream of consciousness through which the poets of Mexico rage and swirl. Filled with wild, dark literary prophecies, heroic poets, mad poets, artists ''choked by the brilliance of youth'', Auxilio''s passionate narration - both heartbreaking and lyrical - is suffused with the essence of Roberto Bolano''s art. TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS ''Encapsulates the violence and tragedy of recent Latin American history'' The Times ''Roberto Bolano redefined the form of the novel in his masterpiece 2666 ; with the hallucinatory narrative of Amulet , he reimagines what literature can become'' New Statesman

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Roberto Bolaño

Product details

• Authors: Roberto Bolaño, Roberto Bolano
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 03.10.2024
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9781784879419
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-941-9
• Pages: 208
• Dimensions (packing): 13 x 19.8 x 1.4 cm
• Subjects: Chile, Classics, Mexico, South America, Latin America, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Philosophy, Fiction in translation, Sixties, Modern Classics, SciFi Fantasy, Literary fiction, Classic Books, Central America, Mexican Gothic, Existential, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, 1960s, classic novels, sci fi fantasy, classic books for adults, vintage classics, best historical fiction, contemporary fiction paperbacks, political biographies, literary fiction 2022, penguin vintage classics, modern classic books, vintage classics books, historical fiction paperbacks, ciudad graphic fiction, las chimeneas, recommended books