Slight spoiler.... This is a marvelous, marvelous book -- throughout most it, I felt it was a book of genius. The final third was not quite as strong, though the most extraordinary passages of the entire volume are in this sectioin. I'm referring to the section on Belano in Africa, with its echoes ...
By turns tedious and exhilarating. In a way, it's infuriating that the book is so good. It's like Bolaño's bragging by making you read exhausting boring parts because he knows you'll keep reading for the good parts. I loved it, but I'm still shaking my fist at Bolaño (why, I oughta...).
How to solve the Savage Detective riddle?Three visceral realists, an abused prostitute, a sphinx-like poet and a hounding masochistic pimp. Savage Detectives is a segmented nostalgia of barefaced narratives, miscellaneous testimonies and a thrilling road trip. It comes across as an intricate braint...
The SAVAGE DETECTIVES - Roberto Bolano ( trans- Natasha Wimmer) "The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honour life, because it brings them against its most formidable we...
I made it to about page 150. While there was much in the book that I found interesting, I was ultimately put off by much as well. Even if one is a poet, is it really possible that everyone in Mexico is a poet? And mostly, I found that I really did not care enough about any of the self-involved chara...
There was a time when I would have loved this book. I actually did enjoy the part I read. But as soon as I became convinced -- around page 100 -- that nothing of note was actually going to happen, so to speak, I had to give it up. I hope to pick up another Bolano someday, as I hear this is not his b...
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