Chris Andrews is een Australische vertaler en schrijver, die bekend staat als de belangrijkste Engelse vertaler van het werk van de veelgeprezen Latijns-Amerikaanse auteur Roberto Bolaño. Zijn productieve werk heeft Bolaño's significante literaire stem geïntroduceerd bij een breder publiek. Naast zijn vertaalprestaties is Andrews ook een gerespecteerd dichter, met een bundel van zijn originele verzen die een prestigieuze prijs heeft gewonnen. Zijn literaire bijdragen tonen een diepe betrokkenheid bij complexe thema's en een onderscheidend auteurschap dat zowel zijn vertalingen als zijn eigen creatieve werk verrijkt.
The story follows hybrid werewolf Kyle Smithson, who inadvertently sparks chaos after saving a young human woman. Unbeknownst to him, his long-buried wife has returned as a vampire, entangled in a dangerous turf war. As he grapples with his promise and escalating personal stakes, Kyle finds himself torn between his past love and the woman he aims to protect, leading him to confront a life-or-death struggle.
The Oulipo is a literary think tank that brings together writers and mathematicians. This book assesses the work of the group, explores where it came from, and envisages its future. Redefining the Oulipo's key concept of the constraint in a clear and rigorous way, Chris Andrews weighs the roles of craft and imitation in the group's practice.
A book of colour photographs showing the University City of Colleges, buildings, life and events.
Contains 64 pages of atmospheric images showing the elusive charm of the county of Herefordshire - from Leominster and Shobdon in the north to Ross-on-Wye and Goodrich in the south.
A souvenir picture book, with over 60 colour photographs showing the atmosphere of this historic city.
Pankaj Mishra remarked in The Nation , "one of the remarkable qualities of Bolaño's short stories is that they can do the work of a novel". The Return contains thirteen unforgettable stories bent on returning to haunt you. Wide-ranging, suggestive, and daring, a Bolaño story might concern the unexpected fate of a beautiful ex-girlfriend or a dream of meeting Enrique Lihn; his plots go anywhere and everywhere and they always surprise. Consider the title piece: a young party animal collapses in a Parisian disco and dies on the dance floor; just as his soul is departing his body, it realizes strange doings are afoot--and what follows next defies the imagination (except Bolaño's own). Although a few have been serialized in The New Yorker and Playboy , most of the stories of The Return have never before appeared in English, and to Bolaño's many readers will be like catnip to the cats.
Featuring several mass-murdering authors, two fraternal writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring and a poet who crafts his lines in the air with sky writing, Nazi Literature in the Americas details the lives of a rich cast of characters from one of the most extraordinarily fecund imaginations in world literature. Written with acerbic wit and virtuosic flair, this encyclopaedic cavalcade of fictional pan-American authors is the terrifyingly humourous and remarkably inventive masterpiece which made Bolaño famous throughout the Spanish-speaking world.
When Nuria Martí, the beautiful Spanish figure skater, is suddenly dropped from the Olympic team, a besotted admirer builds a secret ice rink for her in the ruins of an old mansion on the outskirts of their seaside town. What he doesn't tell her is that he paid for it using embezzled public funds. Such deceit is not without repercussions, and the skating rink soon becomes a crime scene... Rife with political corruption, sex, jealousy and frustrated passion, The Skating Rink - narrated in turn by a corrupt and pompous civil servant, a beleaguered romantic poet, and a duplicitous local entrepreneur - is a darkly atmospheric tale of murder and its motives.
Exploring a range of vivid imagery and themes, this collection features poems that juxtapose the mundane with the cosmic, from paint splotches to a star named Fang. Through intricate wordplay and structural experimentation, it reflects on life's complexities and potential avenues for escape. The work encourages readers to engage in its playful yet profound examination of the world's ever-changing nature.
