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A tour de force of black humor, composed of short biographies of imaginary pan-American authors, providing sketch character portraits that are often pathetically funny, sometimes surprisingly moving, and on occasion, authentically chilling.
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Prestige, ironic, character-led and comic.
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Roberto Bolaño
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 237
- Publisher
- Anagrama, Editorial Planeta, Christian Bourgois
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- English, Spanish, French, German
- ISBN
- 9780811217941
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Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (Santiago, 28 de abril de 1953-Barcelona, 15 de julio de 2003) fue un escritor y poeta chileno, autor de más de dos decenas de libros, entre los cuales destacan sus novelas *Los detectives salvajes,* ganadora del Premio Herralde en 1998 y el Premio Rómulo Gallegos en 1999, y la póstuma *2666.* ---------- Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (Santiago, April 28, 1953 – Barcelona, July 15, 2003) was a Chilean writer and poet, author of more than twenty books, among which his novels *Los detectives salvajes,* winner of the Herralde Prize in 1998 and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize in 1999, and the posthumous *2666* stand out.
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