The late Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño has been called the García Márquez of his generation. In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Bolaño tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes—the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself—on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe.

Brilliantly rendered into English

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Rosario Castellanos is an introverted university student who doesn't seem to belong to her time. In the early 1950s in Mexico City, she is fighting to have voice heard in a society run by men. She is about to become one of the biggest female writers in Mexican literature, but her tumultuous love story with Ricardo Guerra will manifest her fragility and contradictions. At the peak of her career and her marriage, she will ignite a discussion that will...

Luis Felipe Fabre's Writing with Caca essays a lyric investigation of the Mexican modernist writer Salvador Novo. The book centers around an investigation and reclaiming of Los Anales, the original, derogatory nickname given to Novo and his compadres in the modernist group Los Contemporáneos. Through Novo, Fabre conjures a poetics of the anus: It is not in vain that the sphinx and the sphincter share a single etymological origin, he writes. Similar...

Opowieść o poetach, poezji i podróżach. Być może to powieść o wszystkim, bo jeśli powstają jeszcze powieści totalne - to ta nią właśnie jest. Ulises Lima i Arturo Belano, dwóch poetów mieszkających w mieście Meksyk, poszukuje śladów mitycznej, acz zapomnianej poetki Cesarei Tinajero. Poszukiwania te zawiodła ich do zaułków meksykańskiej stolicy, na pustynie stanu Sonora, do Hiszpanii, Francji i Izraela. Przez ich losy - relacjonowane...

"Un joven de dieciocho años llega a la ciudad de México con la secreta intención de convertirse en poeta. Es el final de la década de los cincuenta. Al poco tiempo, comienza a involucrarse en la intensa vida cultural de la capital. Así, se adentra en un mundo de talleres y tertulias, de complicidades sinceras y envidias aún más hondas, cafés y torneos de ajedrez,de intrigas amorosas, vanidades y -a pesar o por encima de todo- de pasión verdadera...