Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolaño Ávalos ( born April 28, 1953 in Santiago de Chile, † July 14, 2003 in Barcelona) was a Chilean writer.

Life and work

In his childhood, Roberto Bolaño was traveling because of the frequent moves of his parents criss-crossing Chile. As a student, he suffered from dyslexia. At age 13 he came with his parents to Mexico City, where he spent his youth.

With the Mexican poet Mario Santiago, he founded the avant-garde group of Infra realists, who rebelled against the established literary world.

In 1973 he returned to Chile to participate in the departure under the socialist president Salvador Allende. After the coup in Chile in 1973, he was held captive for eight days before he could leave the country with the help of friends. He went to El Salvador and later returned to Mexico. After the end of the Franco regime in 1977, he moved to Spain. He lived with his wife in Blanes, a coastal town near Barcelona, where his two children were born. His livelihood, he played through odd jobs in the summer at a campground in Castelldefels.

There he learned 1978-1981 a guest from France know: Miralles, the main character from Javier Cercas ' novel Soldiers of Salamis. From the stories Bolaño reports in 2000 the author and gave him as the material for the third part of the book. Here, Bolaño became a literary figure even in Cercas ' novel.

After its beginnings as an unknown surrealist poet Bolaño succeeded in 1998 with Los detectives salvajes the breakthrough. He received the prestigious Premio Rómulo Gallegos and so came to fame recently. Only 50 years old, he died in Barcelona from cirrhosis. On an organ he had waited in vain.

In his revised by his wife, Carolina López estate there was another work: Los sinsabores del verdadero policía ( " The needs of the real police "). His last book yet published in his lifetime, rags novel, and the posthumously published novel in 2666, are regarded as his literary legacy. His novel Antwerp served as a template for the eponymous short film by Jasper Pollet (2011) and rags novel as a template for the 2013 feature film Il Futuro tarnished - A rags story in Rome by Alicia Scherson.

Bolaño is considered one of the most gifted writers of his generation in Latin America. Sometimes with Julio Cortázar compared, may have had the strongest influence on him, but Jorge Luis Borges. Many of his works are reminiscent of the bibliomane fantasies. Striking are its ambivalent relationship to his native Chile and the Latin American literary tradition as well as his distinctive satirical nature. Only after his death he became known through translations in the U.S. and in Germany a wider audience.

Prices

  • Premio AMBITO Literario de Narrativa (novel)
  • Premio Municipal de Santiago de Chile (novel)
  • Premio Herralde (novel)
  • Premio Rómulo Gallegos (novel)
  • Premio Ciudad de Barcelona
  • Premio Salambó
  • Premio Fundación Lara
  • Premio Altazor
  • National Book Critics Circle Award (2008, USA)

Works (selection)

In Spanish:

  • With Antoni García Porta: councils de un Discipulo de Morrison a un Fanatico de Joyce. Seguido de Diario de bar. Acantilado, Barcelona 1984, ISBN 84-96489-39-6.
  • Fragmentos de la universidad desconocida. Talavera de la Reina 1993, ISBN 84-88439-06-7.
  • La pista de hielo. Anagrama, Barcelona 2009, ISBN 978-84-339-7199-9.
  • La senda de los elefantes. CAC, Toledo 1993, ISBN 84-87515-22-3.
  • Los perros románticos. Poemas 1980-1998. Arcantilado, Barcelona 2006, ISBN 84-96489-31-0.
  • Sensini. Cuento. Fundazioa Kutxa, San Sébastien 1997, ISBN 84-7173-309-9.
  • Monsieur Pain. Anagrama, Barcelona 1999, ISBN 84-339-2445-1 ( Narrativas hispanicas. 275 ).
  • Putas asesinas. 3rd edition. Anagrama, Barcelona 2003, ISBN 84-339-2485-0 ( Narrativas hispanicas. 314).
  • Antwerp. Anagrama, Barcelona 2009, ISBN 978-84-339-6832-6 ( Narrativas hispanicas. 331).

Translated into German:

  • The Nazi Literature in the Americas. (La literatura nazi en América. ) Kunstmann, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-88897-212-4 (translated by Heinrich von Berenberg ).
  • Star in the distance. ( Estrella distante. ) Novel. Kunstmann, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-453-19606-6 ( translated by Christian Hansen).
  • The savage detectives. (Los detectives salvajes ) ​​. Novel. Dtv, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-13182-7 (translated by Heinrich von Berenberg ).
  • Amuleto. ( Amuleto. ) Roman. Kunstmann, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-88897-307-4 (translated by Heinrich von Berenberg ).
  • Phone calls. Narratives. ( Llamadas telefónicas. ) Hanser, Munich 2004 ( translated by Christian Hansen).
  • The insufferable gaucho. (El gaucho insufrible. ) Novel. Kunstmann, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-88897-446-5 ( translated by Hanna Grzimek and Peter Kultzen ).
  • Chilean night piece. ( Nocturno de Chile. ) Novel. Dtv, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-423-13880-2 (translated by Heinrich von Berenberg ).
  • Exile in the no man's land. Fragments of an autobiography. ( Entre Paréntesis and Tres. ) Berenberg, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-937834-26-9 ( translated by Kirsten Brandt and Heinrich von Berenberg ).
  • Maze. Narrative. Seventh, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-902711-00-7 ( translated by Christiane Barnaházi and Elisabeth Schöberl ).
  • 2666th novel. Hanser, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23396-6 ( translated by Christian Hansen).
  • Rags novel. ( Una novelita slouch. ) Hanser, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-446-23546-5 ( translated by Christian Hansen).
  • The Third Reich. Novel. (El Tercer Reich. ) Hanser, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23610-3 ( translated by Christian Hansen).
  • The needs of the real cops. (Los sinsabores del verdadero policía. ) Novel. Hanser, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3446239739 ( translated by Christian Hansen).

Theater adaptations

  • 2666 by Àlex Rigola, UA: 2007 in Barcelona, ​​2014: Berlin stage.
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