Title:: [[Antwerp]] Authors:: [[Roberto Bolaño]] Tags:: #novella #translatedfiction Read:: [[2025-01-12]] Instagram :: ## Editions - Edition:: [[Picador]], First Paperback, 2024 - Original Copyright:: 2002 - Pages:: 78 ## Purchase * Bookshop.org:: https://bookshop.org/a/94437/9781250898166 ## Annotations Love the new [@picador](https://www.instagram.com/picador/) series of Bolaño’s catalogue, and especially the covers by [@michael_schmelling](https://www.instagram.com/michael_schmelling/). I want them all.  Stylistically these books couldn’t be more different, and demonstrate Bolaño’s range. The Insufferable Gaucho is a collection of short stories and two lectures, all of which I found phenomenal. They are written with intention like a choreographed dance moving purposefully from start to finish. My favorites (if I had to choose) were Alvaro Rousselot’s Journey and Literature + Illness = Illness  Antwerp was completely different, also his first novel, though published 20ish years after first writing it. Written as a series of small vignettes without a sense of chronology or consistent characters, I found it more of an exercise in evoking emotions than a narrative project.