/lit/ - Literature

everything revolves around Santa Teresa, the murders, and archimboldi.

Read the hole book, it's worth it

>>5544675
>hole

>>5544696
I think he means this one, sir.

>>5544696
→not realizing he's referring to The Hole Book by Roberto Baño.

>>5544084

You have to remember Bolano intended to have all the 'parts' separated intro individual books. They can be read and should be seen as individual pieces but in the end it all comes together. It ALL comes together.

>>5544084
the writer is the uncle of the killer.

>>5545017

Except he wasn't the killer.

The killer is a group of people and it's implied they're with the police on a cover-up. Most likely rich criminal guys who get their rocks off at raping and murdering women and little girls.

>>5544708
that's a shitty book.

I'm reading this right now. In book 4. Just keep going. It'll click. Promise.

>>5545152

Man book 4 (The Part about the Crimes) is.... a damn experience, thats all I can say. Bolano in an interview was asked before he died what he thought hell would be like and he said it would be like Ciudad Juarez, the city Santa Theresa is based on.

>>5545320
a fucking desert.

>>5545466
this is as close as I will ever get to palindubs, so im takin it.

>>5545494
mysterious double palindubs, as close as ill ever get....

>>5544084
>roberto bolaño

Is that the guy who playe El Chavo?

>>5545320
>>5545466
>tfw living in it's sister-city, El Paso
>tfw no one reads here or knows of Bolano's work on Juarez

Even here at the university, the student body is medical / business oriented. The literature staff is tenured and old, out of date and lazy. Everywhere in the city, there is the scent of trans-international corruption: local politics, school systems, business practice, drug trafficking, sex trade and especially all of the missing-persons cases that consistently go unannounced on any of the three local news stations.

I'm a repo man. I live here alone, with no real friends or family, and am always under anxiety and the sense of alienation from a people and culture that value the comfort of never knowing, or ever wanting to know. Everyday here I have to find a way into the homes of people who tend to be illegal families, and take away all of their belongings--mostly furniture and appliances. Everyone here knows what happens at night, under the tables and out of sight, but it's one of those horrors of a forgotten desert tribe--to walk among it and feel as if the tribe has forgotten it's own existence.
Born and raised in hell and I'm trying to climb out.

>>5547836

Jesus fucking christ that sounds awful, ever think of moving somewhere else?

>>5545729
Actually, I'm brazilian, and people always get sort of confused when they I have two books by El Chavo

>>5547836
I would read a book by you

>>5547836
Get the fuck out of there, don't let that city swallow you up. Save some money and leave.

>>5547836

Wow that... really captured 'The Part about the Crimes' in 2666. Just the evil under the surface of an empty, cold and intellectually bereft surface