Between parentheses : essays, articles, and speeches, 1998-2003
/ Roberto Bolaņo ; edited by Ignacio Echevarria ; translated by Natasha Wimmer
- New York : New Directions , 2011.
- ix, 390 p. ; 21 cm.
Originally published in Spain as: Entre parentesis.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Three insufferable speeches -- Fragments of a return to the native land -- Between parentheses -- Scenes -- The brave librarian -- The private life of a novelist.
Collection of most of Bolaņo's newspaper columns, articles (many about other literary authors), prefaces, and texts of talks or speeches given by Bolaņo during the last five years of his life. "Taken together, they make a surprisingly rounded whole . . . a kind of fragmented 'autobiography.'"--Introduction, p.1.