by Roberto Bolaño
Alberto seems as an enigma to his fellow poets, a slightly aristocratic individual, adored by the women, yet he comes across as polite but disinterested to the male members of the college circle, who are in fact a bit jealous of him and his cool styling. This is all thrown into disarray after Pinoch...
An engrossing, tense and disturbing read. I was sad that I lacked the background to appreciate fully the deeper subtleties.
This short novel has some similar elements to The Savage Detectives, but it's much darker. Bolaño looks at the sinister side of Latin American poetry movements and politics, as he explores the dark careers and identities of Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, aka Carlos Wieder, a member of the Chilean air force who...
What a wonderful, magnificent, tender book... Bolaño is... was a genius
I am moving this to my not-to-read shelf simply b/c I so disliked the author's book [b:The Savage Detectives|63033|The Savage Detectives|Roberto Bolaño|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1342651149s/63033.jpg|2503920]!
It's Roberto Bolaño, but only three-star Bolaño...Let it be known that I love this writer's works, and 'The Savage Detectives', in particular. However... this novella has its moments but it's inconsistent. And it's no surprise. It's another of the books based on an incident from a former work (in th...
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