The Ordeal of a Real Policeman

The Ordeal of a Real Policeman Book Description

They had learned that the first lesson that literature gave was courage. This was a strange courage - it resembled the courage of a stone well among lakes and reeds, the courage of a mirror or a whirlpool. They learned that reading was not a more comfortable task than writing. That one learns to remember and doubt while reading... And that memory is love.

The Ordeal of a Real Cop was a project that started in the eighties and continued until Bolaño's death. He mentioned this project in some of his letters, and in one of his letters in 1995, he said, “Novela: I have been working on a book called The Ordeal of a Real Cop for several years, and THAT IS MY NOVEL: The protagonist is a widowed university professor in his fifties, with a daughter at seventeen, who is trying to spend his life. They're heading to Santa Teresa, near the US border. "Eight hundred thousand pages or so, a complete mess that no one can understand a word of..." he wrote.

The Ordeal of a Real Cop is Bolaño's close relationship with his best works, his prolific creativity, his identification with the losers, his ethics that do not require ethical principles, his intelligent reading of writers he finds close to him, his radical independence, his presentation of a modern novel that keeps his taste for narrative alive, his education and It deserves special attention because of its relentless loyalty to the places to which it owes its authorship, its cosmopolitanism that expresses a way of life and existence, and its hopeless and happy surrender to creation, apart from its social repercussions.

In The Ordeal of a Real Cop, we again encounter an extremely familiar and indispensable Bolaño.

“The police are the reader who will try to put this chaotic novel in order.”

Roberto Bolano

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 272

Size: 12.5 x 19.5

First Printing Year: 2020

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language: Turkish