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The secret of evil / Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Chris Andrews and Natasha Wimmer.

by Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003

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New Directions Pub., 2012.

Secreto del mal. English

x, 144 p. ; 22 cm.

"Originally published as El secreto del mal by Editorial Anagrama, Barcelona, Spain."--T.p. verso.

Texts Bolano was working on before he died: completed stories, sketches for larger works, essays, and fragments.

Translated from the Spanish.

Preliminary note -- Colonia Lindavista -- The secret of evil -- The old man of the mountain -- The colonel's son -- Scholars of sodom -- The room next door -- Labyrinth -- Vagaries of the literature of doom -- Crimes -- I can't read -- Beach -- Muscles -- The tour -- Daniela -- Suntan -- Death of Ulises -- The trouble-maker -- Sevilla kills me -- The days of chaos.

"A collection that gathers everything Bolano was working on before his untimely death. A North American journalist in Paris is woken at 4 a.m. by a mysterious caller with urgent information. For V. S. Naipaul the prevalence of sodomy in Argentina is a symptom of the nation’s political ills. Daniela de Montecristo (familiar to readers of Nazi Literature in the Americas and 2666) recounts the loss of her virginity. Arturo Belano returns to Mexico City and meets the last disciples of Ulises Lima, who play in a band called The Asshole of Morelos. Belano’s son Gerónimo disappears in Berlin during the Days of Chaos in 2005. Memories of a return to the native land. Argentine writers as gangsters. Zombie schlock as allegory... The various pieces in the posthumous Secret of Evil extend the intricate, single web that is the work of Roberto Bolano."--From publisher.

Spanish fiction -- Translations into English.

Literary fiction.

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