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>Don Quixote, by Cervantes
>Moby-Dick, by Melville
>Borges' entire body of work
>Hopscotch, by Cortazar
>A Confederacy of Dunces, by Toole
>Nadja, by Breton
>Jacques Vaché's letters
>All the "Ubu" plays by Jarry
>Life a User's Manual by Perec
>The Trial and The Castle by Kafka
>Lichtenberg's aphorisms
>Tractatus, by Wittgenstein
>The Invention of More, by Bioy Casares
>Satyricon, by Petronius.
>History of Rome, by Livy
>Pensées by Pascal

Thoughts?

>> No.11382772

>>11382768
didn’t he also like Stendhal a lot

>> No.11382782

>>11382772
yeah, and Céline and Lowry.

>> No.11382870

>>11382768
this is ideal list. now I'm gonna start reading him.

>> No.11382894

>>11382768
Great list

>> No.11383001

>>11382870
He's an incredible writer based on the one short work of his I've read, very political which I usually dislike but it didn't bother me much in his case.

>> No.11383008

>>11382768
how many lenguages did he know?

>> No.11383038

Reading savage detectives right now. And he seems like a nice guy that you can be friends with.
And his taste seems great as well.

>> No.11383084

>>11382768
>>Tractatus, by Wittgenstein
I knew he was a pseud brainlet.

>> No.11383105

>>11383008
allof them

>> No.11383132

>>11383084
what does that make you?

>> No.11383166

>>11383008
All

>> No.11383176

>>11383132
Patrician continental word wanker desu

>> No.11383183

>>11382768
>The Invention of More, by Bioy Casares
This book is underwhelming. Rest is alright, nothing new. Breton and Perec sont de deuxième ordre, il va sans dire.

>> No.11383205

>>11383183
>Rest is alright, nothing new.
nothing new? well, those are old books, anon.

>Breton and Perec sont de deuxième ordre, il va sans dire.
have your read them?

>> No.11383210

>>11382768
God, Confederacy of Dunces was such a waste of time.

>> No.11383228

Solid list but a bit underwhelming

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>>11383183
>Breton and Perec sont de deuxième ordre, il va sans dire.

>> No.11383263

>>11383205
They're a creature of their own, no doubt, mais donnez crédit lorsque le crédit est dû. In contrast to the usual obscurists and classics-denialists you'd otherwise encounter, cela n'est pas mal du tout.

>> No.11383376

>>11383205
Ofc… It’s not necessarily a surprise, though, that Bolano would pick a Breton over, say, a Simon, or a Tournier. Who cares, really : Bolano is still decent enough.

>> No.11384745

>>11383001
what did you read?

>> No.11384811

>>11383008
Probably some five or six like most Latin-American writers? You're supposed to read Spanish, Portuguese, English, French and Italian. The smartest ones know their German, and the Byzantines have Latin and Greek. One or two will be exotic enough to learn Russian, Hebrew or Chinese.

Reading does not mean you're fluent, though.

>> No.11384837

>>11384745
Amulet, found it in a used bookstore somewhere. Apparently it's in the same universe as The Savage Detectives so maybe I would appreciate it more having read that, but it's still very interesting and enjoyable on its own, I'm not especially widely read but his style stands out as something different from anything I've encountered.

>> No.11385878
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11385878

I've read and reread Entre paréntesis and wrote down the name of every author he speaks of, and I did the same thing for Los detectives salvajes, even that one page with the interminable paragraph listing surrealist poets, some of whom I recognized, among a majority of obscure, minor, perhaps even fictional names.

His one article about Borges (where he describes the Argentinian without using his name once, out of a sort of solemn respect) connects his taste to his experience. Bolaño used to spend the summer months at the library in his youth, every day reading. When Bolaño arrived penniless in Europe, the first book he bought was Poesía completa. He read it cover to cover, twice, probably, in a row. Personally, I find his Biblioteca personal indispensable.

Bolaño was well versed in the Greeks, and enjoyed authors such as Philip K. Dick (Electric Sheep), Enrique Vila-Matas (several great books), Gombrowicz (Ferdydurke), even the artist Georges Braque, whose little book of aphorisms I still haven't managed to find.

Onions mucho más feliz leyendo que escribiendo. Words to live by.

>> No.11385880

>>11385878
Onions?! Shit. Should say "Onions mucho más feliz..."

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11386102

have u guys read the third reich yet

>> No.11386109

>>11386102
i still can't get over the fact that angl*s for some reason call the third german empire "reich" but the previous two "empire"

>> No.11386124

>>11386109
scary German gutturals

>> No.11386125

Is Bolano really that great of a novelist?

Still haven't read him.

>> No.11386131

>>11386125
yes. he is no meme. every day we bolanistas grow in numbers, join us amigo

>> No.11386259

Reading in the shower y/n?