It seems there's always more being dug up every year - six new works by Bolano will be published in 2012.
Third Reich was just released the 22nd of November and a little before that, Tres was released. It's exciting and almost overwhelming for those of us who came to Bolano after reading the all-encompassing 2666 or The Savage Detectives. It would be surprising if anything slated to be released was at the level those two novels were, but Bolano is one of those unique poets-cum-novelists who can say in one word what it would take for most others to say in a paragraph.
- The Secret of Evil - a posthumous prose collection.
- Advice from a Morrison Follower to a Joyce Fanatic - an early novel written with Bolaño's friend A. G. Porta. You can't judge a book by its cool title. But it could earn some points.
- Diorama - one of 3 books discovered among Bolaño's papers. Still unpublished in Spanish.
- A Lumpen Novella - El futuro, the film adaptation of this book, is already being shot on location in Rome. It will be perfect if the short novel will come out as a movie tie-in. It had a rather interesting premise.
- The Troubles of the Real Police Officer - another discovered manuscript. It came out in Spanish early this year. It's very likely it will be released in English in mid- to late 2012. And the wonderful Natasha Wimmer will probably translate again for FSG.
- The Unknown University - the last of Bolaño's 3 major collections of poetry translated by Laura Healy. New Directions will most likely publish this in 2012.
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