Tina's review
Last Evenings on Earth (New Directions Paperbook)
by Roberto Bolaño
Tina's review
Last Evenings on Earth (New Directions Paperbook) by Roberto Bolaño
Tina's review
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as a visual artist who has somehow managed to float through post-vietnam, post-reagan/clinton, bush diaspora urban life with mild amusement and flushes of panic, one can't help but appreciate Bolano's recent appeal and heraldry as a great writer. also as someone who cut her teeth on the crisp realism of hemingway and nathaniel west, has ingested a whole lotta noir (on the screen or in the everyday), Bolano feels right to me. writers writing about writers gets tedious for non-writers, like painters painting painters, but documentation of bohemian life is always a necessity in our costco sprawled realities. so so far so good. i'll be interested to see what the book club has to say about it. after this i'd like to check out Nazi Literature in the Americas.
