The spirit of science fiction
/ Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Natasha Wimmer.
- New York : Penquin Press , c2016, 2019
- 196 pages ; 22 cm
"A novel"--Dust jacket. "Originally published in Spanish under the title El espíritu de la ciencia-ficción by Alfaguara, Madrid."
Set in Mexico in the 1970s, the novel charts the literary and romantic escapades of two Chilean aspiring writers, employing a range of genres, from epistolary novel to science fiction to satire.