Pearls series

Antwerp is a total avant-garde freakout, and among the most beautiful things Bolaño wrote.

The Millions

Antwerp’s signature elements – crimes and campgrounds, drifters and poetry, sex and love, corrupt cops and misfits – mark this, his first novel, as pure Bolaño.

Antwerp

by Roberto Bolaño

Translated from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

As Bolaño’s friend and literary executor, Ignacio Echevarria, once suggested, Antwerp can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolaño’s fictional universe. Reading this novel, the reader is present at the birth of Bolaño’s enterprise in prose: all the elements are here, highly compressed, at the moment when his talent explodes. From this springboard – which Bolaño chose to publish in 2002, twenty years after he’d written it (“and even that I can’t be certain of”) – as if testing out a high dive, he would plunge into the unexplored depths of the modern novel. Antwerp’s fractured narration in 54 sections – voices from a dream, from a nightmare, from passers by, from an omniscient narrator, from “Roberto Bolaño” all speak – moves in multiple directions and cuts to the bone.

Paperback(published Apr, 01 2010)

ISBN
9780811219914
Price US
9.95
Trim Size
4.5x7
Page Count
112

Clothbound(published Apr, 01 2010)

ISBN
9780811217170
Price US
15.95
Trim Size
4.5x7
Page Count
112

Ebook(published Apr, 01 2010)

ISBN
9780811220491
Price US
9.95
Page Count
112
Portrait of Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolaño

Twentieth-century Chilean poet and novelist

Antwerp is a total avant-garde freakout, and among the most beautiful things Bolaño wrote.

The Millions

The only novel that doesn’t embarrass me is Antwerp.

Roberto Bolaño

Never less than mesmerizing.

Los Angeles Times