The Unknown University
New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [2013]
Format: Book
Description: vii, 835 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Perhaps surprisingly to some of his fiction fans, Roberto Bolano touted poetry as the superior art form, able to approach an infinity in which "you become infinitely small without disappearing." When asked, "What makes you believe you're a better poet than a novelist?" Bolano replied, "The poetry makes me blush less." The sum of his life's work in his preferred medium, The Unknown University is a showcase of Bolano's gift for freely crossing genres, with poems written in prose, stories in verse, and flashes of writing that can hardly be categorized. "Poetry," he believed, "is braver than anyone."
Other Authors:
Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003. Poems.
Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003. Poems. English.
Healy, Laura, translator.
Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003. Poems.
Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003. Poems. English.
Healy, Laura, translator.
ISBN:
9780811219280
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Poetry Bol | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
The deluxe, bilingual edition of all the poems of Roberto Bolaño.
"Originally published as La Universidad Desconocida in 2007 by Anagrama, Barcelona, Spain"--Title page verso.
"Poems which previously appeared in my translations of The Romantic Dogs (New Directions, 2008) and Tres (New Directions, 2011); which were based on the El Acantilado editions; have been edited to reflect differences between those Spanish texts. The section called People Walking Away is a heavily edited version of Antwerp, which has been translated by Natasha Wimmer (New Directions, 2010) . . . . The edits I have made reflect the differences between the two Spanish versions, but the underlying work is hers"--Translator's note.
Includes indexes.
Parallel text in English and Spanish.
"Originally published as La Universidad Desconocida in 2007 by Anagrama, Barcelona, Spain"--Title page verso.
"Poems which previously appeared in my translations of The Romantic Dogs (New Directions, 2008) and Tres (New Directions, 2011); which were based on the El Acantilado editions; have been edited to reflect differences between those Spanish texts. The section called People Walking Away is a heavily edited version of Antwerp, which has been translated by Natasha Wimmer (New Directions, 2010) . . . . The edits I have made reflect the differences between the two Spanish versions, but the underlying work is hers"--Translator's note.
Includes indexes.
Parallel text in English and Spanish.