Roberto Bolaño's posthumous story collection The Return.
by Jacob Schraer
IN A POSTHUMOUS PUBLISHING BOOM, 2010 has seen the translation and release of five titles from acclaimed Chilean author Roberto Bolaño (The Savage Detectives, 2666), with New Directions Publishing promising six more on the way. These so far include novellas, early novels, and this week a short-story collection, The Return. Drawn from two smaller collections, The Return is a nicely structured if uneven sequence of stories. While some contain a simple scene that could fuel a one-act play, most of…
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