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Between Parentheses
A work of Non-fiction by Roberto Bolaño
Subgenres:
- Essay Collection,
- Literary Criticism,
- Speeches & Lectures
This book is for you if you're into...
- Literary essays with sharp opinions and unapologetic honesty
- Writers reflecting on their heroes and literary influences
- Columns blending irreverence, tenderness, and fierce advocacy
Between Parentheses collects most of the newspaper columns and articles Bolano wrote during the last five years of his life, as well as the texts of some of his speeches and talks and a few scattered prologues.
Bolano's career as a nonfiction writer began in 1998, the year he became famous overnight for The Savage Detectives; he was suddenly in demand for articles and speeches, and he took to this new vocation like a duck to water.
Cantankerous, irreverent, and insufferably opinionated, Bolano also could be tender (about his family and favorite places) as well as a fierce advocate for his heroes (Borges, Cortázar, Parra) and his favorite contemporaries, whose books he read assiduously and promoted generously.
A demanding critic, he declares that in his ideal literary kitchen there lives a warrior: he argues for courage, and especially for bravery in the face of failure.
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