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false <![CDATA[Amulet]]> 63029 10 A tour de force, Amulet is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America. It is September 1968 and the Mexican student movement is about to run head-on into the repressive right-wing government of Mexico: hundreds of young people will soon die. When the army invades the university, one woman hides in a fourth-floor ladies' room and for twelve days she is the only person left on campus. Staring at the floor, she recounts her bohemian life among the young poets of Mexico Cityinventing and reinventing freelyand along the way she creates a cosmology of literature. She is Auxilio Lacouture, the Mother of Mexican Poetry. Auxilio speaks of her passionate attachment to young poets as well as to two beloved aged poets, to a woman who once slept with Che Guevera, and to the painter Remedios Varo, recalling visits which never occured. And as they grow ever more hallucinatory, her "memories" become mythologies before completely transforming into riveting dark prophecies. Hair-raising and enthralling, Amuletis a heart-breaking novel and another brilliant example of the art of Roberto Bolaño, "the most admired novelist," as Susan Sontag noted, "in the Spanish-speaking world." 61220 2002 Amulet total:354|5:100|4:124|3:100|2:23|1:7| 354 1349 595 63 3 3 false false Sun Oct 14 11:51:14 -0700 2007 Sun May 25 22:54:12 -0700 2008 the book is auxilio's (the mother of mexican poetry) reflection on her past and her future and i guess her present, in mexico in the 60's. all while holed up in a bathroom in a school that has been invaded and closed down by the mexican army. from the op...more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 07:19:11 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 09:06:18 -0700 2008
his characters remind me of the vow of poverty mon...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 12:57:19 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 13:09:50 -0700 2008 "ehh, I suppose it's time to start ending this," feel. In some ways I can't blame Bolano too much for that, as the book was less a plot than a (highly successful) evocation of place and mood, and it's difficult to...more...]]> 0 1 false false Sun Mar 01 17:10:50 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 17:13:24 -0800 2009 Maps & Legends and Jack Handey's What I'd Say to the Martians and Other Veiled Threats. Chabon? Read most of the essays already. Handey? The binding was cracked; but "Legend of Me...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 10:19:44 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 06:23:21 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 22:30:10 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 22:50:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Jan 15 19:31:22 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 15 06:18:06 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 15 19:31:22 -0800 2009
I just wi...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Sep 25 10:32:25 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 27 23:35:52 -0700 2007 A big part of her story is hiding in a bathroom at a university in Mexico City during student unrest in 1968. I never read Marilyn French, but i just learned that in her Women's Room the protagonist also hides in the women's bathroo...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 07:40:51 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 07:42:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Dec 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 14:21:39 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 15:00:51 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Dec 30 12:33:18 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 04 16:44:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 06:22:23 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 17:25:56 -0700 2009 2009#59
Auxilio Lacouture, narator kisah ini, adalah jenis karakter yang mudah dibenci. Semacam groupies dalam dunia kesenian, mengerubung di sekitar penyair2 ternama Meksiko maupun penyair2 mudanya, pengangguran, sok nyeni, nyebelin (ada banyak orang macam ini yg saya kenal di dunia nyata, nam...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 09:23:45 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 09:24:24 -0700 2009
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That said, what I liked about the story is the telling of how to survive (or remember?) living in a university bathroom for two weeks during a military occupation. The backdrop i...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 13:01:43 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 13:05:35 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 30 07:23:39 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 07:28:05 -0800 2008 the whole book reads like hallucinations of a woman, through which we are taken along a journey in which like many of Bolano's stories, nothing makes sense, yet everythi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jan 23 15:13:26 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 15:29:37 -0800 2009 The Savage Detectives in which she spoke of her encounters with young Belano and of being holed up in a bathroom, resisting the Mexican army's invasion of a college compus in 1968. This book...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Dec 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 13:32:41 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 13:45:53 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6744132