Amulet
  • Published: 3 October 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529924404
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208
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Amulet

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21 Jan 2025
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3 Oct 2024
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A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolaño’s work – now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time.

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 Bolaño’s art.

TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS

'Encapsulates the violence and tragedy of recent Latin American history' The Times

‘Roberto Bolaño redefined the form of the novel in his masterpiece 2666; with the hallucinatory narrative of Amulet, he reimagines what literature can become’ New Statesman
  • Published: 3 October 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529924404
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208
Categories:

About the author

Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953, and died in 2003 in Spain. He is widely regarded as one of the foremost Latin American novelists of his generation and his work has won him numerous literary prizes.

Also by Roberto Bolaño

Distant Star
The Collected Short Stories of Roberto Bolaño
Woes of the True Policeman
The Skating Rink
A Little Lumpen Novelita
Monsieur Pain
The Spirit of Science Fiction
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Praise for Amulet

A curtain-raising taster to the epic of his landmark works.

Independent

His work is the crossroads where Márquez meets Burroughs and Borges meets Mailer, resulting in a riotous dust-up.

Guardian

Encapsulates the violence and tragedy of recent Latin American history . . . spare but beautifully compacted.

The Times

A short, original, engaged and engaging novel; a good introduction to the longer works of this writer.

Times Literary Supplement

Roberto Bolaño redefined the form of the novel in his masterpiece 2666; with the hallucinatory narrative of Amulet, he reimagines what literature can become.

New Statesman