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The Insufferable Gaucho, by Roberto Bolano, is an anthology of short stories and essays. Summary of the Book These strange, arresting, short masterworks by Bolano will keep you gripped until the end. The stories and essays in the book depict different human emotions, entertaining you with their wit, intensity, and Kafkaesque nature. The 5 short stories contained in this volume include the following: Jim, The Insufferable Gaucho, the title story, Police Rat, Alvaro Rousselot’s Journey, and Two Catholic Tales - The Vocation. The two essays included are Literature + Illness = Illness and The Myths of Cthulhu. About Roberto Bolano Roberto Bolano was a Chilean writer known for his novels, short-stories, essays and poetry. He won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel, Los detectives salvajes (The Savage Detectives). He was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel, 2666. Bolano was described by the New York Times as "the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation.” Some of his other notable works include the following: Distant Star, Last Evening on Earth, The Unknown University, The Secret of Evil, Antwerp, and By Night in Chile.