Alfaguara will publish unpublished novel by Roberto Bolaño – Milenio.com

The next 3 November, Alfaguara published the spirit of science-fiction, the recovery posthumous of an unpublished novel of Roberto Bolaño preserved in the personal archive of the author. Is now published as part of the Library Roberto Bolaño, initiated by Alfaguara last September with their two masterpieces: detectives wild and 2666, which will also include the 21 titles that make up the current literary corpus of the author in chile.

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Written in the early eighties, to the spirit of science-fiction is set during the seventies in Mexico City —then Federal District— and narrates the life of two young writers trying to live of the literature in a city in which everything important seems to happen in that magical moment and ephemeral that separates night from day. The novel mixture of the features of the realist literature with other fantastic character, fantastic in the description of the dreams of one of the protagonists.

Roberto Bolaño mentioned several times the spirit of science-fiction in his correspondence from 1980. The novel is dated in Blanes, in 1984. It is known that it was a project that kept them alive for quite a long time, even after that year.

it Is a novel that follows their methodology of regular work prior to the use of the computer: notes, writing, drafting, and writing in clean. It was transcribed posthumously.

This novel also mark a certain turning point in the work of the chilean, as a sort of introduction to the texts of the maturity of his last creative period, the productive years of Blanes from 1985 to 2003 in which he composed the great volume of his work and certainly his best pages. to the spirit of science-fiction is part of the same narrative line of her other novel’s most famous work, The detectives wild, by coming to the Prize Rómulo Gallegos in 1999.

The novel will be presented in the International Book Fair Guadalajara, dedicated this year to Latin America. It will serve to pay homage to an author that way, so decisive burst into the panorama of the Spanish language and universal literature, and to give continuity to the cultural bet, and the initiative editorial Alfaguara, which has as aim think about the literature in Spanish language as a common homeland.

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