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The Secret of Evil


A Literary Fiction Short Story Collection


Subgenres:

  • Short Stories,
  • Posthumous Collection,
  • Experimental Fiction
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Literary fiction that blurs reality with surreal, dark humor
  • Stories where writers become outlaws and artists cross dangerous lines
  • Fragmented narratives with recurring characters and shifting perspectives
Publisher Description

A collection that gathers everything Bolano was working on before his untimely death.

A North American journalist in Paris is woken at 4 a.m. by a mysterious caller with urgent information.

For V. S. Naipaul the prevalence of sodomy in Argentina is a symptom of the nation's political ills.

Daniela de Montecristo (familiar to readers of Nazi Literature in the Americas and 2666) recounts the loss of her virginity.

Arturo Belano returns to Mexico City and meets the last disciples of Ulises Lima, who play in a band called The Asshole of Morelos.

Belano's son Gerónimo disappears in Berlin during the Days of Chaos in 2005.

Memories of a return to the native land.

Argentine writers as gangsters.

Zombie schlock as allegory...

The various pieces in the posthumous Secret of Evil extend the intricate, single web that is the work of Roberto Bolano.

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