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| Original Title: | Los detectives salvajes |
| ISBN: | 0374191484 (ISBN13: 9780374191481) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Ulises Lima, Arturo Belano, Auxilio Lacouture, Ernesto San Epifanio, María Font, Angélica Font, Julio César Álamo, Cesárea Tinajero, Laura Jáuregui, Alberto Moore |
| Setting: | Mexico City (México City)(Mexico) |
| Literary Awards: | Premio Herralde de Novela (1998), Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos (1999), BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction shortlist (2008) |
Roberto Bolaño
Hardcover | Pages: 577 pages Rating: 4.12 | 30387 Users | 3170 Reviews
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New Year’s Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run. The explosive first long work by “the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time” (Ilan Stavans, Los Angeles Times), The Savage Detectives follows Belano and Lima through the eyes of the people whose paths they cross in Central America, Europe, Israel, and West Africa. This chorus includes the muses of visceral realism, the beautiful Font sisters; their father, an architect interned in a Mexico City asylum; a sensitive young follower of Octavio Paz; a foul-mouthed American graduate student; a French girl with a taste for the Marquis de Sade; the great-granddaughter of Leon Trotsky; a Chilean stowaway with a mystical gift for numbers; the anorexic heiress to a Mexican underwear empire; an Argentinian photojournalist in Angola; and assorted hangers-on, detractors, critics, lovers, employers, vagabonds, real-life literary figures, and random acquaintances. A polymathic descendant of Borges and Pynchon, Roberto Bolaño traces the hidden connection between literature and violence in a world where national boundaries are fluid and death lurks in the shadow of the avant-garde. The Savage Detectives is a dazzling original, the first great Latin American novel of the twenty-first century.
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| Title | : | The Savage Detectives |
| Author | : | Roberto Bolaño |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 577 pages |
| Published | : | April 3rd 2007 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (first published 1998) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Novels. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Cultural. Latin American |
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Ratings: 4.12 From 30387 Users | 3170 ReviewsCriticism Out Of Books The Savage Detectives
It narrates the adventures of a group of self-described young idealists and rupturists "The Viscerrealists" who intend to change Latin American poetry forever. Divided into three parts, the magna novel is exposed in its first and third division through the diary of Juan García Madero, a young law student with certain literary tastes. In a certain poetry workshop he meets the leaders of this group, Ulises Lima and Arturo Belano, who not only promote avant-garde poetry, but through the sale ofI read this book because a friend of a friend recommended it to me. It reminded him of The Sorrows of Young Mike and because of the style and the way some of the sex scenes were described I understand where he was coming from. But, in the end this book did very little for me. I couldn't care about their literary movement (whatever that means) or any of the characters in general. The first section was readable but the second was not as it was more of the same page after page. I started the third
I have a good feeling about this, based on the first few pages. Feels like Murakami meets Kerouac. So, grown up Roddy reading meets teenage Roddy reading. The locale shifts from Japan and the USA to South and Central America. The quest narrative continues with a new backdrop. Everybody wins. ************300 pages later, and nothing has happened yet, so I'm having second thoughts about my first impression. It's not at all clear what the big deal is supposed to be about this book. I mean,
I hate the description for this novel. Anything longer than a single paragraph is destined for bloviation, an Excel graph of key phrases selling itself to as many bidders as possible. A long list of characters fishing for the lay reader's empathy? Borges and Pynchon for those who don't need that sort of nonsense? Please. If it gets more people reading Bolaño, sure, but these days that's the end all excuse for literature in a capitalist society. The least we can do is point it out and follow it
I wish there was a proper way to splutter in written form. I mean, it's not that I didn't like this book, really. I certainly didn't not like it. I just... just... I dunno, I guess I just didn't get it like everyone else seems to've. As I said somewhere else, given that everyone really lost their shit over this book (I mean, did you see brian's review? Or Andrew's? Or freaking Josh's??), I guess I was really expecting to have my whole brain rearranged by it, like when I first read Cortàzar. And
I hate the description for this novel. Anything longer than a single paragraph is destined for bloviation, an Excel graph of key phrases selling itself to as many bidders as possible. A long list of characters fishing for the lay reader's empathy? Borges and Pynchon for those who don't need that sort of nonsense? Please. If it gets more people reading Bolaño, sure, but these days that's the end all excuse for literature in a capitalist society. The least we can do is point it out and follow it
Whats a Giggle Amongst Family and Friends?I bought this book 15 months ago. I finished it yesterday. It started off as a crisp, thin-leafed semi-brick whose 648 pages intimidated me. I only got the courage to read it when a discussion group gave me the impetus I needed. Now, it sits less crisp, but read, on my desk, wondering who will read it next. Like me, its 15 months older, but we are both easing into middle age and are still making new friends. We two are friends now, as if weve known each
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