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Editorial Anagrama, 2009. Colección: Compactos. Novela. La voz arrebatada de Auxilio Lacouture narra, e indaga, un crimen atroz y lejano. Auxilio, uruguaya de mediana edad, se oculta en los lavabos de mujeres durante la toma de la universidad por la policía, en México, en septiembre de 1968. Recluida allí por varios días, podrá avizorar los años ya vividos en México y los años por vivir. Rememora entonces a la poetisa Lilian Serpas, que hizo el amor con el Che, y a su infortunado hijo, a los poetas españoles León Felipe y Pedro Garfias a quienes Auxilio sirvió como doméstica voluntaria, y también aparece Arturo Belano, personaje central en Los detectives salvajes, de la que esta novela es una digresión fractal. Pero sobre todo se narra un viaje por un mundo, el Polo Norte de la memoria que se extiende por doquier. 154 pp. 21 x 13. Tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Sin subrayados. Buen estado de conservación. ISBN: 9788433973559

2009. 1st Edition. hardcover......We ship daily from our Bookshop.

First edition. 184pp. Grey cloth under blue-covered boards; blue titles on spine; blue endpapers. 8vo. Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear, not price clipped.

Near fine first printing in fine dust wrapper. Square, tight and unread but with two orange spots, one to the fore edge and one to the lower edge of the text block. Publisher's themed bookmark loosely inserted. A new copy. The dust wrapper is complete and in perfect condition. A very heavy book which will incur a postal surcharge request for overseas delivery.

Fine hardcover in a Fine dj. First Edition, First Printing.

Fine hardcover in a Fine dj. First Edition, First Printing.

First Printing of the FIrst American Edition. A Very Fine copy in a Very Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped. Translated by Chris Andrews and Natasha Wimmer. 144pp. English only. Q11581

FE/FP with full number line. Translated by Chris Andrews. Reprint of 1984's La Senda de los Elefantes. This book it doesn't behave much like a mystery novel. By the end of the book, the mysteries remain unsolved, the ostensible victim may or may not have suffered from foul play and the protagonist intent on figuring out who done it (if anyone did anything at all) appears incapable of doing so. 134 pages.

12mo. 227 pp. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, fine copy. (80481). Translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews.

First edition, 1st printing. Translated by Natasha Wimmer. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in NEW condition. "From a master of contemporary fiction, a tale of bohemian youth on the make in Mexico City: Two young poets, Jan and Remo, find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life in the literary world--or sacrifice themselves to it. Roberto Bolaño's THE SPIRIT OF SCIENCE FICTION is a story of youth hungry for revolution, notoriety, and sexual adventure, as they work to construct a reality out of the fragments of their dreams. But as close as these friends are, the city tugs them in opposite directions. Jan withdraws from the world, shutting himself in their shared rooftop apartment where he feverishly composes fan letters to the stars of science fiction and dreams of cosmonauts and Nazis. Meanwhile, Remo runs headfirst into the future, spending his days and nights with a circle of wild young writers, seeking pleasure in the city's labyrinthine streets, rundown cafés, and murky bathhouses. This kaleidoscopic work of strange and tender beauty is a fitting introduction for readers uninitiated into the thrills of Roberto Bolaño's fiction, and an indispensable addition to an ecstatic and transgressive body of work." [jacket copy] "[Bolaño] is a kinetic, epiphanic writer, and even his earliest works tremble like a whirring, unpredictable machine. THE SPIRIT OF SCIENCE FICTION functions as a kind of key to the jeweled box of Bolaño's fictions, an index of the images that would come to obsess him. Longtime Bolaño fans will doubtless enjoy this familiar cocktail of sorrow and ecstasy."--Paris Review. "A sort of raw spinoff of the extraordinary initial section of the first of Bolaño's international hits, The Savage Detectives. Maybe it's precisely the sense of reading a work under construction that makes THE SPIRIT OF SCIENCE FICTION such a pleasure."--Alvaro Enrigue, Book Page. Pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding.