Posthumous Stories

By: Roberto Bolaño

Published by Picador, 2025-12-02

"A supernova of creativity whose light is still arriving at our shores." - Giles Harvey, The New Yorker
A North American journalist in Paris is woken at 4 a.m. by a mysterious caller with urgent information. For V. S. Naipaul, the prevalence of sodomy in Argentina is a symptom of the nation's political ills. Daniela de Montecristo (familiar to readers of Nazi Literature in the Americas and 2666) recounts the loss of her virginity. Arturo Belano returns to Mexico City and meets the last disciples of Ulises Lima, who play in a band called The Asshole of Morelos. Belano's son Gerónimo disappears in Berlin during the Days of Chaos in 2005. Memories of a return to the native land. Argentine writers as gangsters. Zombie schlock as allegory.Posthumous Stories is a collection of every story Bolaño was working on before his untimely death, extending the intricate, evolving web that is the work of Roberto Bolaño and what we know about it. A gift for fans of Bolaño looking for new inroads into his complex and beguiling body of work.