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this is the most misleading cover I've ever seen.
what a joke of a novel.

>> No.12487427

>>12487358
>complaining about the cover
This was published 1 year after Bolaño's faggot. For some reason i dont think he was involved in choosing the cover artwork for the english translation.

>> No.12487438

>>12487427
>1 year after Bolano's faggot
We still haven't recovered

>> No.12487503 [DELETED] 

>>12487358
>whining about a "misleading" translated work published like 5 years after the writer died
The joke tells itself.

>> No.12487522

>>12487358
>whining about a "misleading" translated work's cover published posthumously
What a faggot. The joke tells itself.

>> No.12487603

I just started this one lads, almost two hundred pages in and I have no idea where this is going but it’s strangely relaxing and pleasurable to read with all of the tangents and digressions and absurdity

>> No.12487646
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12487646

>>12487358
Italian edition

>> No.12487784

>>12487646
only 3 parts?

>> No.12487792

>>12487784
Two volumes

>> No.12487800
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12487800

>>12487358
>>12487646
Look at this fucking shit. Slovenian edition.

>> No.12487861
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pt-pt

>> No.12487876

>>12487427
Why does your phone autocorrect ‘death’ to ‘faggot’?

>> No.12487888

>>12487603
You haven’t got to the part people typically complain about yet. The beginning and ending are great. Amazing storytelling. The middle however tends to rub people the wrong way

>> No.12487891

>>12487358
ikr, i expected some time of sprawling, baroque novel a la terra nostra and all i got was some bland and dragging nonsense that went on forever. bolano is just a product of the publishing industry after all, legitimized by "latin american studies" departments avid to get their claws on something new after preying on garcia marquez for decades.

>> No.12487892

>>12487358

>OP wanted an underwater high fantasy novel

>> No.12487895

>>12487800
this is probably the most honest/best cover.

>> No.12487959
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12487959

>>12487358
romanian edition

>> No.12488037
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12488037

mine

>> No.12488042

>>12487800
Cover is best known part, doesn't fuck around.
What's up with the 75?

>> No.12488051

>>12487888
oh i wasn’t aware there was a part people complained about, that sucks

>> No.12488073
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12488073

mine looks like this

>> No.12488260

You don't feel the plot at all, because there's no conclusions to almost anything. The only concrete thing you find out is Archimboldi's history, which ties into and explains some things from Part 1, but that's about it.

>> No.12488329

How do you say the title, /lit/? Two-six-six-six? Twenty-six sixty-six? Two thousand six-hundred sixty-six?

>> No.12488346

>>12488051
Yea there's a pleb filter in there.

>> No.12488349

>>12488329
Sucks to be Anglo.

>> No.12488351

>>12487358
I feel like the cover should be a silhouette of Ingeborg against the night sky but all the stars are skulls.

>> No.12488406

>>12487358
A book set in a distant future based on the paintings of Gustave Moreau actually would be great.

>> No.12488598

>>12487800
fucking kek

>> No.12488603

>>12488073
hhhnnnggg where do I get that one?

>> No.12488606

op is a brainlet

>> No.12488646

>>12488051
Part 4. But you can skip most of it. Most of the chapter is a bunch of extremely detailed imagery of murdered thots.

>> No.12488652

>>12487358
Never trust a chilean, they are backstabbers, scumbags, treacherous bastards.

>> No.12489378

>>12488646
now why in the world would i want to skip that?

>> No.12489432

there were a lot of little truths and details that i really enjoyed but it meandered and never arrived at any conclusion. or maybe i'm just a brainlet. either way, i still really enjoyed his prose.

>>12487888
i liked the middle part. i read through it in a couple days and it made me feel numb afterwards. if that was his objective then he accomplished it

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>>12487358
Pic related: French edition. Do the French hate Bolaño? Giving this shit of a cover to to the man's magnus opus... ffs.

>> No.12489467

>>12487358
literally judging a book by its cover

faggatron3000

>> No.12489477

>>12487891
Is Terra Nostra worth a read?

>> No.12489781

>>12489460
Nah thats just folio, their covers are always shit, i could spot it from a mile away

>> No.12489794

>>12489432
>i liked the middle part. i read through it in a couple days and it made me feel numb afterwards. if that was his objective then he accomplished it
THIS. After a while i wanted it to never end(even the dry parts). I felt like rape was absolutely normal. Bolano hypnotised me and i felt nothing for the women. I wanted more rape. I started enjoying reading about it. If 'this is how society degenerates' was his point, i absolutely felt it. This book is a masterpiece.

>> No.12490488

>>12487876
The absolute state of /lit/-posting

>> No.12490861

>>12488037
very very nice

>> No.12491020
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>>12487861
br-pt

>> No.12491037
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>>12487358
I actually think that is one of the few covers I liked from english translations of anything. You lack taste

>>12487646
Adelphi is top aesthetic in the world when it comes to book covers. Grazie per averlo ricordato a tutti, italianon, quando ci vuole ci vuole.
Have a Japanese cover for peak aesthetics.

>> No.12491163

>>12491037
Good job the runefolk

>> No.12491191

>>12487800
>slovenia
the graphic designer just went to the nearest window and snapped a pic with his phone?

>> No.12491196
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12491196

i fucking hate my cover

>> No.12491222

>>12487358
I was disappointed by this book too. It had great potential, but it kept lapsing into this restrained, smug, navel-gazing tone. By the end, I was convinced that Bolaño is just a slightly less shit version of Murakami.

>> No.12491229

>>12487891
based and redpilled

>> No.12491602
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12491602

>>12491191
>

>> No.12491670

>>12491602
that doesn't measure what you think it measures

>> No.12492095

Tell me /lit/: did Hans Reiter kill his wife

>> No.12492190

>>12491191
It's virtually impossible to get robbed/mugged/raped in the streets of Slovenia even if you are walking around at 3AM in the "worst" parts of the town. In fact, I don't think anything such as a bad neighborhood even exists in Slovenia.

On the other hand when I was in Seattle, it was like walking into a shithole. And I thought Seattle was supposed to be one of the safer/cleaner cities of USA. Fat and ugly people everywhere. Trash rolling down the streets. Grey and poorly maintained infrastructure. Black people carrying backpacks and selling dope in broad daylight. Tattooed and oddly dressed women with questionable hygiene. Crossing the border and making it to Vancouver was like escaping from a war-zone.

>> No.12492204

>>12487358
so is it just the english translation/me or is the prose really that repetitive and dry?

>> No.12492215

>>12492204
That’s how Bolaño writes. It’s comfy as fuck. It’s so detached and uncomplicated

>> No.12492223

>>12491196
Pathetic British Existence

>>12491222
I think the problem is really parts 2 and 3. Part 4 is at the very least brave and I'd say a big success. Part 1 is just funny. Part 5 I personally dislike but I couldn't apply your line of criticism to it. It's 2 and 3 that do all the things well intentioned creative writing MAs fuck themselves over with.

>> No.12492235

>>12492215
I also find his writing comfy af. Despite the subject matter.

>> No.12492333

>>12491602
>>12492190
so the slovenian internet defense force is lurking the 4chan literature board

guess you learn something new every day huh