The first story collection by Roberto Bolano --"the real thing and the rarest" (Susan Sontag). Roberto Bolano's story collection "Last Evenings on Earth" was acclaimed by Francine Prose in "The New York Times Book Review" as "something extraordinarily beautiful and (at least to me) entirely new.... Reading Roberto Bolano is like hearing the secret story, being shown the fabric of the particular, watching the tracks of art and life merge at the horizon and linger there like a dream from which we awake inspired to look more attentively at the world." "The melancholy folklore of exile," as Bolano once put it, pervades these fourteen haunting stories. His narrators are usually writers living on the margins and grappling with private (and often unlucky) quests. Set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin American and Europe, and peopled by Bolano's beloved "failed generation," these stories are unimaginably gripping. One story begins: "Mauricio Silva, also known as 'The Eye, ' always tried to avoid violence, even at the risk of being considered a coward, but violence, real violence, is unavoidable, at least for those of us born in Latin America during the fifties and sixties and were about twenty years old at the time of Salvador Allende's death." "Last Evenings on Earth" has been hailed as "sheer brilliance" ("The San Francisco Chronicle"), "vaguely, pervasively frightening" ("The Nation") and "brilliant" ("Kirkus Reviews"). The stories, as "Publishers Weekly" noted, are "perfectly calibrated: Bolano limns the capacity of a voice to carry despair without shading into bitterness."

故事以"我"的视角讲述了维德尔的"传奇生平"。开篇讲与我同是文学社的维德尔给人的感觉睿智得体相貌出众自学成才，与人保持距离相当神秘，但没人不妒忌他，因为只有他征服了文学社的两位女性。遗憾的是姐妹最后终结于死亡。我因入狱得已目睹维德尔首次空中写诗表演，于是开始娓娓到来维德尔及其身边人物的故事，大家的经历、找寻以及各自的结局。最终只有我再次见到并认出维德尔，只不过这是一次赏金行动。

★《2666》作者天才智利作家罗贝托•波拉尼奥成名作。 ★波拉尼奥作品版图里的重要作品，处于波拉尼奥作品文学三角的顶端。 ★进入《2666》的一把钥匙，波拉尼奥作品必读。 ★与《2666》有可查证的关联： 虚构了同一个城市 圣特莱莎。 在第二部分中提及阿琴波尔迪。 在一场对话中，2600年被指为不祥之年。 在2666的笔记里，波拉尼奥说过，“2666的叙述者是阿图罗•贝拉诺[《荒野侦探》主人公]。2666就要煞尾了。朋友们，就说到这里吧。这是我所做的一切，我全部的生活经历。如果我还有力气，肯定会哭上一场。阿图罗•贝拉诺跟各位说：永别了！” - 《2666》作者罗贝托•波拉尼奥写给失败一代的情书 永远年轻，永远荒唐地悲伤 - 十七岁的墨西哥法学院学生马德罗热爱诗歌，时常逃课参与诗歌班的讨论。在那里认识了自命为“本能现实主义诗人”的贝拉诺和利马。他们与其他诗人和艺术家为伍，在酒吧争论诗歌，大麻、酒精、性爱样样不缺。该诗派的精神领袖——女诗人蒂纳赫罗——据传多年前在墨西哥城北面的索诺拉沙漠失踪了。一半为了理想，一半为了躲避仇家，他们决定深入沙漠寻找她的踪迹，同行的还有妓女鲁佩。 离开墨西哥城后，他们被目击到在巴黎、特拉维夫、维也纳和巴塞罗那出没，干各种零工为生，却从未有人看过他们写的任何一行诗！年轻的诗人们经历了二十年不可逆的生命体验与幻灭…… 《荒野侦探》是波拉尼奥的第一部长篇小说，甫出版即一鸣惊人。1999年获罗慕洛•加列戈斯国际小说奖、智利国家图书协会大奖等，也因此让波拉尼奥扬名国际文坛，从此跻身拉丁美洲一流作家之列，称他为最具原创性、自马尔克斯以来最重要的作家。

THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, "THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW") Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolano's life, "2666 "was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of SantaTeresa--a fictional Juarez--on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.