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Bolano's works are only recently being translated into English; as I understand it he cast a pretty long shadow over Spanish Literature in the past twenty years or so. With this book, I can see why.
Massively experimental in form and confident in tone, this epic indirectly traces the lives of two poets/drug dealers/itinerants/con artists, Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, who wish to save Latin American Poetry from itself. A young sycophant's mid-70's diaries bookend the main bulk of the book, whic ...more
Massively experimental in form and confident in tone, this epic indirectly traces the lives of two poets/drug dealers/itinerants/con artists, Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, who wish to save Latin American Poetry from itself. A young sycophant's mid-70's diaries bookend the main bulk of the book, whic ...more
Jul 02, 2008
William Owen
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it was amazing
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There is in this such thoughts of purpose and glory by simply the act of calling oneself a writing, a poet, or an artist. The meaning of day and night itself plays shadow to the toiling of hours and driving hand of creation, as the characters come into and out of their craft, the shelling of their souls.
Of course I read 300 pages in 4 days, and its been 3 weeks and I still have 100 pages to go. it's a big book (2666 here I come, no, not quite yet, but in the stack). It's the second half, the cha ...more
Of course I read 300 pages in 4 days, and its been 3 weeks and I still have 100 pages to go. it's a big book (2666 here I come, no, not quite yet, but in the stack). It's the second half, the cha ...more
