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The essays of Roberto Bolano in British finally. Between Parentheses gathers almost all of the paper columns and articles Bolano wrote during the last five many years of his life, as well as the texts of a few of his speeches and discussions and some scattered prologues. "Taken together," as the editor Ignacio Echevarra remarks in his intro, they provide "an individual cartography of the copy writer: The closest thing, among all his writings, to some sort of fragmented 'autobiography.'" Bolano's job as a nonfiction copy writer began in 1998, the year he became famous right away for The Savage Detectives; he was out of the blue in demand for articles and speeches, and he got to the new vocation like a duck to water. Cantankerous, irreverent, and insufferably opinionated, Bolano also could be tender (about his family and favorite places) and a brutal advocate for his heroes (Borges, Cortzar, Parra) and his favorite contemporaries, whose literature he read assiduously and advertised generously. A challenging critic, he declares that in his "ideal literary kitchen there lives a warrior": He argues for courage, and specifically for bravery in the face of failure. Between Parentheses fully lives up to his own requirements: "I require creativity from literary criticism, creativity at all levels."
