Last Evenings on Earth
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The melancholy folklore of exile," as Roberto Bolano once put it, pervades these fourteen haunting…
Want to ReadIf you liked the contemporary plot in Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews , here is a list of 6 books like this:
1. Vertigo
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
4.00
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
Vertigo, W. G. Sebald's first novel, never before translated into English, is perhaps his most amaz… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Michael Hulse's Vertigo book and Roberto Bolaño's Last Evenings on Earth
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
"Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!"-Michael Hulse, Vertigo
"How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all."-Michael Hulse, Vertigo
"There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain."-Michael Hulse, Vertigo
"É um vazio todo peculiar que surge quando, numa cidade estranha, a pessoa disca números de telefone em vão. Quando ninguém atende, é uma decepção de alcance transcendente, como se esses números aleat…"-Michael Hulse, Vertigo
2. Blow-Up and Other Stories
By: Julio Cortázar , Paul Blackburn
4.21
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading … read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Julio Cortázar's Blow-Up and Other Stories book and Roberto Bolaño's Last Evenings on Earth
- literature
- latin american literature
- latin american
- spanish literature
- short stories
- fiction
"She smells fresh, like the shadow under trees."-Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up and Other Stories
"...no sé si has visto cómo el paisaje se va rompiendo cuando lo miras alejarse..."-Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up and Other Stories
"...como un gato que mira fijo pero se ve que está por completo en otra cosa; que es otra cosa."-Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up and Other Stories
"Habits, Andrea, are concrete forms of rhythm, are that portion of rhythm which helps to keep us alive."-Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up and Other Stories
3. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
Want to Read $ 19.99Similar categories in William H. Gass's The Recognitions book and Roberto Bolaño's Last Evenings on Earth
- literature
- fiction
"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
4. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
By: César Aira , Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
3.88
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German ar… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in César Aira's An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter book and Roberto Bolaño's Last Evenings on Earth
- literature
- latin american
- spanish literature
- fiction
- contemporary
"Were the “pampas,"-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
"...the transformation would be accomplished not in the dimension of time but in that of meaning."-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
"A drove of mules the size of ants appeared in silhouette on a ridgetop path, moving at a star's pace. The mules were driven by human intelligence and commercial interests, expertise in breeding and b…"-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
"A bird flashed across the empty sky. A cart immobile on the horizon, like a midday star. How could a plain like this be remade? Yet someone would, no doubt, attempt to repeat their journey, sooner or…"-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
5. Mao II
By: Don DeLillo
4.31
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
"One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The N… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Don DeLillo's Mao II book and Roberto Bolaño's Last Evenings on Earth
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
6. Last Evenings on Earth
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The melancholy folklore of exile," as Roberto Bolano once put it, pervades these fourteen haunting… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Roberto Bolaño's Last Evenings on Earth book and Roberto Bolaño's Last Evenings on Earth
- literature
- latin american literature
- latin american
- spanish literature
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
7. Satantango
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
4.14
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in George Szirtes's Satantango book and Roberto Bolaño's Last Evenings on Earth
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
"They’re waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them. They are waiting, belly to the ground, like cats at pig-killing time, hoping for …"-George Szirtes, Satantango
"Irimiás: God is not made manifest in language, you dope. He's not manifest in anything. He doesn't exist... God was a mistake. I've long understood there is zero difference between me and a bug, or a…"-George Szirtes, Satantango
8. A Universal History of Iniquity
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jorge Luis Borges's A Universal History of Iniquity book and Roberto Bolaño's Last Evenings on Earth
- literature
- latin american
- spanish literature
- short stories
- fiction
9. Train Dreams
By: Denis Johnson
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Denis Johnson's Train Dreams book and Roberto Bolaño's Last Evenings on Earth
10. Invitation to a Beheading
By: Vladimir Nabokov
4.89
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading book and Roberto Bolaño's Last Evenings on Earth
11. The Hour of the Star
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narr… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star book and Roberto Bolaño's Last Evenings on Earth
- literature
- latin american
- fiction
"Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
"Όσο για το γράψιμο, περισσότερο αξίζει ένα ζωντανό σκυλί."-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
12. Collected Fictions
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley
4.00
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jorge Luis Borges's Collected Fictions book and Roberto Bolaño's Last Evenings on Earth
13. Ficciones
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan
3.53
Format: 320 pages,
The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jorge Luis Borges's Ficciones book and Roberto Bolaño's Last Evenings on Earth
14. The Passion According to G.H.
By: Clarice Lispector , None
4.13
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in … read more
Want to Read $ 8.61Similar categories in Clarice Lispector's The Passion According to G.H. book and Roberto Bolaño's Last Evenings on Earth
- literature
- latin american
- fiction
"I don't want beauty, I want identity."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
15. Unlikely Stories, Mostly
By: Alasdair Gray
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is Alastair Gray's first collection of short stories. He is the author of "Lanark" and "Why Sc… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Alasdair Gray's Unlikely Stories, Mostly book and Roberto Bolaño's Last Evenings on Earth
16. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Michael Hulse's The Rings of Saturn book and Roberto Bolaño's Last Evenings on Earth
17. A Horse at Night: On Writing
By: Amina Cain
4.03
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Amina Cain's A Horse at Night: On Writing book and Roberto Bolaño's Last Evenings on Earth
- literature
"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
18. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
Want to Read $ 18.99Similar categories in Vincent Bevins's If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution book and Roberto Bolaño's Last Evenings on Earth
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
19. Threshold
By: Rob Doyle
3.78
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The narrator of Rob Doyle's Threshold has spent the last two decades traveling, writing, and imbibi… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Rob Doyle's Threshold book and Roberto Bolaño's Last Evenings on Earth
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
20. The Lights: Poems
By: Ben Lerner
3.84
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A formally ambitious and intensely felt new volume from the author of 10:04 and The Topeka School. … read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Ben Lerner's The Lights: Poems book and Roberto Bolaño's Last Evenings on Earth
