1 THE PART ABOUT THE CRITICSFarrar, Straus and Giroux
The first time that Jean-Claude Pelletier read Benno von Archimboldi was Christmas 1980, Paris, when he was nineteen years old and studying German literature. The book in question was D'Arsonval.
For Alexandra Bolaño and Lautaro Bolaño
An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom
- Charles Baudelaire
18 West 18th Street, New York 10011
Copyright 2004 by the heirs of Roberto Bolaño
Translation copyright 2008 by Natasha Wimmer
All rights reserved
Distributed in Canada by Douglas and McIntyre Ltd.
Printed in the United States of America
Originially published in 2004 by Editorial Anagrama, Spain
Punblished in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Grioux
First American edition, 2008
Published simultaneously as a hardcover and a three-volume slipcased paperback edition
An excerpt from "The Part About the Crimes" first appeared in Vice.
"Canto nottorno di un patore errante dell'Asia," by Giacomo Leopardi, is quoted in Jonathan Galassi'a translation.
Endpapers: Sea sponges, from Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, courtesy of the National Library of the Netherlands.
This work has been published with a subsidy from the Directorate-General of Books, Archives, and Libraries of the Spanish Ministry of Culture and with assistance from the National Endowment for the Arts in the form of an NEA Translation Grant.
No comments:
Post a Comment