The Insufferable Gaucho
  • Published: 3 December 2024
  • ISBN: 9781784879501
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $26.00
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The Insufferable Gaucho

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

‘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 Bolaño's best. In addition, two essays are included: provocative and often scathing, they too are alive with Bolaño'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

‘Bolaño wrote with the high-voltage first-person braininess of a Saul Bellow and an extreme subversive vision of his own’ New York Times
  • Published: 3 December 2024
  • ISBN: 9781784879501
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $26.00
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

The Skating Rink
The Third Reich
The Return
Woes of the True Policeman
The Collected Short Stories of Roberto Bolaño
A Little Lumpen Novelita
Monsieur Pain
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Praise for The Insufferable Gaucho

A spellbinder

Newseek

Roberto Bolaño was a game changer: his field was politics, poetry and melancholia . . . and his writing was always unparalleled

Mariana Enríquez

We savour all he has written as every offering is a portal into the elaborate terrain of his genius

Patti Smith

Roberto Bolaño’s work is a sprawling labyrinth of surprise, bold invention, and images that will live with you forever

Chris Power

Roberto Bolaño was a flat-out genius, one of the greatest writers of our time.

Paul Auster

The triumphant posthumous entrance of Roberto Bolaño into the English-language literary firmament has been one of the sensations of the decade

Sunday Times

Bolaño's voice demands attention

The New Yorker

It’s hard to think of a writer who has multiplied the possibilities more times than Roberto Bolaño.

Guardian
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