The Insufferable Gaucho - Paperback

by Roberto Bola?o (Author), Chris Andrews (Translator)

"Excellent . . . 'The Insufferable Gaucho' is one of Bola?o's most powerful fictions." --The New York Times Book Review

An aging Buenos Aires judge retires to the family ranch in the Pampas to battle feral rabbits and reclaim the dignity of the gaucho life. A detective investigates a series of grisly murders--among his fellow sewer rats. An obscure Argentinian novelist journeys to Paris to face down the filmmaker who has been plagiarizing his work for years. Riffing on Borges and Kafka yet utterly and inimitably Bola?o, the stories of The Insufferable Gaucho are a testament to his mastery of the short form. Plus: two of his most provocative and piercing essays, crackling with his signature black humor and incomparable powers of perception and critique.

Author Biography

Roberto Bola?o (1953-2003) was the author of The Savage Detectives and 2666, among many other notable works. Born in Santiago, Chile, he later lived in Mexico City, Paris, and Barcelona. His accolades include the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Premio R?mulo Gallegos. He died at the age of fifty and is widely considered to be the greatest Latin American writer of his generation.

Chris Andrews has translated books of prose fiction by C?sar Aira, Roberto Bola?o, Liliana Colanzi, and ?gota Krist?f, among others. He is also the author of How to Do Things with Forms and The Oblong Plot.