
Last Evenings on Earth
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David Crommett
The first short-story collection in English by the acclaimed Chilean author Roberto Bolano. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award.
"The melancholy folklore of exile", as Roberto Bolano once put it, pervades these 14 haunting stories. Bolano's narrators are usually writers grappling with private (and generally unlucky) quests, who typically speak in the first person, as if giving a deposition, like witnesses to a crime. These protagonists tend to take detours and to narrate unresolved efforts. They are characters living in the margins, often coming to pieces, and sometimes, as in a nightmare, in constant flight from something horrid.
In the short story "Silva the Eye", Bolano writes in the opening sentence: "It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as The Eye, always tried to escape violence, even at the risk of being considered a coward, but the violence, the real violence, can't be escaped, at least not by us, born in Latin America in the 1950s, those of us who were around 20 years old when Salvador Allende died."
Set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe, and peopled by Bolano's beloved "failed generation", the stories of Last Evenings on Earth have appeared in The New Yorker and Grand Street.
©1997, 2001 Roberto Bolano, 1997, 2001, Copyright Editorial Anagrama S.A., 1997, 2001, Translation copyright 2006 by Chris Andrews (P)2013 Audible, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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A collection of short stories largely about writers in Mexico and South America.
I usually am not impressed by writers writing about writers and writing, but these stories are primarily about characters. There is a lot of drinking, sex, and more than a little discussion of male homosexuality, including the homophobia. Overall, I enjoyed every story, but none rose to being sublime. There is a lot of very subtle dark humor, with sense of joy in the face of existential doom.
The narration was quite good and I felt matched the feeling of the text.
Solid Character based Stories
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Doesn't capture the creepiness of the text
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Where does Last Evenings on Earth rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
The book was rather like listening to a lawyer or policeman giving evidence at a public hearing. I am glad I bought it although I can not say I enjoyed the experience . I am not a fan of Kafka who I was reminded of while listening to Last Evenings on EarthWhat other book might you compare Last Evenings on Earth to and why?
Kafka, The Trial . Same style of writing .Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Left me neutral. No emotional response.done well
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