A Little Lumpen Novelita (7 page)

Copyright © 2002 by Roberto Bolaño

Translation copyright © 2014 by Natasha Wimmer

Originally published as
Una novelita lumpen
in 2002. Published by arrangement with the Heirs of Roberto Bolaño and the Andrew Wylie Agency, New York.

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First published as a New Directions Book in 2014.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Bolaño, Roberto, 1953–2003.

[Novelita lumpen. English]

A little lumpen novelita / Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Natasha Wimmer

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-8112-2335-5

ISBN 978-0-8112-2336-2 (e-book)

1. Young women—Fiction. 2. Life change events—Fiction. 3. Self-actualization
(Psychology) in women—Fiction. 4. Rome (Italy)—Fiction. 5. Psychological fiction.

I. Wimmer, Natasha, translator. II. Title.

PQ8098.12.O38N6813 2014

863'.64—dc23
                                      2014018071

New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin

by New Directions Publishing Corporation

80 Eighth Avenue, New York 10011

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