/lit/ - Literature

Got a Bolaño urge, have read Savage Detectives in the past, but don't have the time right now to invest in a doorstopper like 2666. What should I read?

Leave Cortazar to me.

Whats your opinion of Bolaño?

What works do you like from this author?

>dude i have tell you about that time that i was on chile? i ended on prison
>by the way, LATM is HELL

Is this the only two things that he wrote about?

Why do you had to die literally in the top of your career?

is Roberto Bolaño overrated?

Why are all his books about pseuds?

>>8801521
Absolute madman

Why do you gringos suck this guy's dick so much? In my country he is nothing

>>8626944
Este wey, en mi pais es bien chido.

hey /lit/, I wanted to know your opinion on my opening line. Im working on this novella and I what I want to focus on the most is imagery. I wanted to ask your opinion about how good the prose is and where I should improve, also if it works as an opening line at all.

here it is:

When thunder strikes, three hundred thousand volts of electric anger whiplashes through your body in a second; scorches your skin tissue, melts your bone, reduces you to nothing on the ground, as your soul seeps out through your skull with the red, viscous liquid. This unfortunate calamity befell one Dr. James, who was seared to a crisp as he walked home to his precious wife and son.


so how is it /lit/? I would appreciate any constructive criticism, like what I should work on or what im doing ok (if anything at all). thanks

what would you define as "good prose"? what makes prose beautiful to you? people seem to be quite divided on this. also post examples of what you consider "good"

this meme king

I've been reading his work and enjoying it, just wondering what the consensus is.

What are his best works? Worst works? Personal favorites?

How does /lit/ feel about him?

Now that the dust has settled, what is /lit/'s consensus on Bolaño?

>>7537041
2666

Daily reminder that you don't need a college education to become a great writer. Just do it /lit/.

>A screaming comes across the sky. UNO DOS QUATRO DALE ARRIBA ARRIBA OLÉ

damn..

mariachi pynchon

Why are his interviews so boring and uneventful?

mariachi pynchon