Los Detectives Salvajes. [The Savage Detectives].

BOLANO, Roberto.

Item Number: 140079

Barcelona: Anagrama, 1998.

First edition of this modern classic, which was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. In near fine condition. A sharp example.

James Wood wrote in The New York Times, "A novel all about poetry and poets, one of whose heroes is a lightly disguised version of the author himself: how easily this could be nothing more than a precious lattice of ludic narcissism and unbearably "literary" adventures... The novel is wildly enjoyable (as well as, finally, full of lament), in part because Bolaño, despite all the game-playing, has a worldly, literal sensibility."