Amulet

De: Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews - translator

Narrado por: Adriana Sananes

“Roberto Bolaño’s oeuvre is among the great, blistering literary achievements of the twentieth century.” —Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds

“[Latin America’s] most vibrant expositor: an acid-tongued, truth-telling, peripatetic genius, who lived all too briefly, wrote in a fever and did not go gentle into that good night.” —Marie Arana, The Washington Post

Auxilio Lacouture is the mother of Mexican poetry. Uruguayan by birth, Mexican by destiny, the vagrant poetess serves as guardian, confidant, literary mentor, and occasional lover to a generation of Mexico City’s mad young poets, a fixture in their heady bohemian swirl. On the infamous day in 1968 when the army invades and occupies the campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico to quash student protests, Auxilio is alone in the women’s bathroom of the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, reading the poetry of Pedro Garfías on the toilet. Trapped yet defiant, she remains there for twelve days, her life’s story, past and future, pouring from her in a great deluge—and with it, a story of a lost generation, of literature, and of Latin America. Hallucinatory and prophetic, Roberto Bolaño’s Amulet is a spellbinding meditation on youth and valor, on violence and exile, on memory and history: a song of hope, and of love.

Reseñas de la Crítica

One of Bolaño’s most moving books . . . A tour de force . . . A symbol of a time in which passionate conviction and generosity seemed still possible, in both literature and life.”
—Aura Estrada, Boston Review

“A curiously joyful novel that delights in its storytelling even as it struggles with the question of how art might be sustained under conditions resolutely opposed to it.”
—Siddhartha Deb, Harper’s Magazine

“An enthralling and haunting ode to youth, life on the margins, poetry and poets, and Mexico City.”
—Francisco Goldman, author of Monkey Boy

“Intoxicating . . . As romantic in its aesthetic rapture as in its flavour of encircling doom . . . Amulet pays homage to the wild dreams that helped to keep hope alive.”
—Boyd Tonkin, The Independent

“[Amulet] reimagines what literature can become.”
—Heather McRobie, New Statesman