Anagrama, 2011. Translation: The Troubles of the Real Police Officer. I browsed through this surprisingly hefty new novel in a Madrid bookshop. It features Amalfitano from 2666. There was a widely reported story a couple of years ago that a sixth section of 2666 had been found among Bolaño’s along with the still unpublished Diorama (see here). I’d say this is the book in question, although I’m not sure it was intended as part of 2666. Perhaps this was an earlier novel with the Amalfitano character.
The Paris Review has begun serialising Natasha Wimmer’s English translation of The Third Reich (posthumously published in Spanish in 2010). It will appear in four parts throughout 2011 and appear in book form through New Directions at the end of the year.
We also await an English translation of:
Una Novelita Lumpen. Anagrama, 2002. Not a posthumous work.
Reviews of the newly translated Bolaño non-fiction collection, Between Parentheses, are already coming in. Here’s Jeremy Garber at Three Percent.
Perhaps most exciting for me is the forthcoming translation of Horacio Castellanos Moya’s novel Tyrant Memory:
All translations of these untranslated go to my wish lists. There’s four more. The poetry collection Tres will be published bilingual in September by New Directions and the posthumous prose collection The Secret of Evil in November, ahead of The Third Reich. There’s also The Unknown University, more poems. And I think two or three more odds and ends will round off Bolano in English.
Does anyone know if there are plans to translate Advice from a Disciple of Morrison to a Fanatic of Joyce? The title is so compelling.
It’s still in print in Spain (I saw a newish edition last year in a Madrid bookshop) but I have no idea about an English translation.