Putas Asesinas / Putas Asesinas: The Best of Bolaño [Spanish]

by Roberto Bolaño

Book Overview

"Ahora no hay tiempo para aburrirse, la felicidad desapareci en alg n lugar de la tierra y solo queda el asombro".

En esta frase, pronunciada por el protagonista de uno de los relatos incluidos en Putas asesinas, reside la esencia que atraviesa todo el libro. En l, Roberto Bola o trata algunos de los temas que conforman su universo literario y que est n, por tanto, entretejidos en los argumentos de sus obras m s emblem ticas: la sexualidad;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 0525435476
• ISBN13: 9780525435471
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Vintage Espanol
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Putas asesinas

I had read many professional reviews regards this author and his works and nearly all have been favorable. I was not disappointed.

beautiful stories with a misleading title

This collection of 13 stories by Roberto Bolano is misleadingly titled and I presume because of its offensive title most would think this is a pornographic book. The book's cover doesn't help much either. You will be surprised then, when the book turns out to be a delightful collection of interesting, humorous stories, likely to become a classic of Spanish fiction. The "x-rated" title is taken from one of the stories in this collection, a beautiful, lyric, impressionist tale.(No, prurience there.) He also tells stories about failed and successful artists, vacationing filial couples, with a strong taste for iguana meat (You will have to figure that one yourselves), a woman who teaches in a rural governmental poetry school and satisfies her artistic needs listening to a Mexican Rancheras radio station. (If you wonder what these type of music is, think of a mariachi singing solo, heart-crushing songs in loud tenor (alto)voice--(not poetic--not much.). And he writes of displaced Chileans with personal and ingenious political ideologies, one of which suffers from "bibliographic dementia" and confuses Marx with Che Guevara,also of a self-anointed politician who radiates moonlight, and of "Buba" the magnificent, enchanted African soccer player, and more. I would be remiss if I didn't tell about a story which gives 69 reasons not to dance with Pablo Neruda (Chilean Nobel Laureate poet). Hope you will agree, this is a classic creation. Enjoy!