NMLP P-028003 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Secret of Evil

Roberto Bolaño · New Directions · 2012

The Spanish original, El secreto del mal, was published posthumously by Anagrama (Barcelona) in 2007 and gathers twenty-one pieces, of which nineteen appear in this English edition; that Anagrama first is the true first, and New Directions issued the first English-language edition in 2012.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-028003 for "The Secret of Evil" by Roberto Bolaño (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-028003, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).