The Insufferable Gaucho

Roberto Bolaño, a writer who, in Vila Matas’ words, "opens the paths where the literary tendencies of the new millennium are destined to circulate", brings together in this book five short stories and two seminars. Among these stories, all of them indispensable, we find El gaucho insufrible, the adventure of Héctor Pareda, an exemplary Argentinean lawyer who restyles himself as a gaucho in the Pampas, and El policía de las ratas, the journey of Pepe el Tira, nephew of the mythical Josefina la Cantora, who works as a detective in the subterranean world of the sewers. In the two seminars published here, Literatura + Enfermedad = Enfermedad, is a splendid mixture of humour and intelligence; and, in Los mitos de Chtulhu, Bolaño uses a sometimes very subtle, but often distinctly bloody irony, to make some distinguished heads roll on the literary scene.

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