Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles, and Speeches, 1998-2003 (Hardcover)

from donato

If you love literature, and if you love the hypnotic Bolaño style, but really most of all if you love literature, you'll love this. Not only a treasure trove of what to read, but a distillation of why to read (i.e. what literature does for us, or even better, what literature does _to_ us). The ty...

from shadowofthewind

I originally came across this book from an article in The New York Review of Books. It provided one of his essays about exile. It starts off with: "To be exiled is not to disappear but to shrink, to slowly or quickly get smaller and smaller until we reach our real height, the true height of the s...

from shadowofthewind

I originally came across this book from an article in The New York Review of Books. It provided one of his essays about exile. It starts off with: "To be exiled is not to disappear but to shrink, to slowly or quickly get smaller and smaller until we reach our real height, the true height of the s...