Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780735222908)

One more journey to the universe of Roberto Bola, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literature

Cowboy Graves is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent. Roberto Bola's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into fiction is unmistakable in these three novellas. In "Cowboy Graves," Arturo Belano--Bola's alter ego--returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades for socialism. "French Comedy of Horrors" takes the reader to French Guiana on the night after an eclipse where a seventeen year old answers a pay phone and finds himself recruited into the Clandestine Surrealist Group, a secret society of artists based in the sewers of Paris. And in "Fatherland," a young poet reckons with the fascist overthrow of his country, as the woman he is obsessed with disappears in the ensuing violence and a Third Reich fighter plane mysteriously writes her poetry in the sky overhead.

These three fiercely original tales bear the signatures of Bola's extraordinary body of work, echoing the strange characters and uncanny scenes of his triumphs, while deepening our reverence for his gifts.

Author: Roberto Bola
ISBN-10: 0735222908
ISBN-13: 9780735222908
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 02/15/2022
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.35h x 5.28w x 0.63d