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What does /lit/ think of Roberto Bolano? I recently finished reading The Savage Detectives and I thought it was excellent... brilliantly written. Content wise it reminded me somewhat of On the Road, but with far more interesting characters and settings. I'm about to attempt 2666...

>> No.3332414

I love 2666, I read it this summer and it made me fall in love with reading again.Great book.

>> No.3332421

He wrote his only great book, 2666, and then died.

Everything else he wrote is "bad" to "middling" (at least in terms of his fiction, his poetry looks like interesting).

>> No.3332538

>>3332421
I've read one poem by him (The Neochileans) and it's fucking awesome

>> No.3332737

I've read By Night in Chile. It was good. The style kept me really engaged. There's a novel called Pereira Declares by Antonio Tabucchi which treads similar grounds both thematically and stylistically but doesn't do it as effectively in my opinion. But it's interesting that two different authors wrote similar such books presumably without one influencing the other.

>> No.3332882

I've been trying to find Last Evenings on Earth without luck

Maybe I'll just read 2666 instead

>> No.3332895

>>3332421
This is the kind of bad, sweeping opinion you hear espoused at English Department wine parties by that particularly noxious Sophomore who everybody talks about behind his back.

Disregard.

>> No.3332928

>>3332895
>going to english dep wine parties
gay

>> No.3332930

>>3332406
Looks like a jew palahniuk

>> No.3332934

>>3332895

>English Department wine parties

I implore you all in earnest not to do this.

>> No.3332943

>>3332930
heroin'll do that

>> No.3332944

>>3332928
>staying in on Friday nights trolling 4chan
heterosexual

>> No.3332947

>>3332934
Why?

>> No.3332950

>>3332947

If you have to ask, you'll never know.

>> No.3332955

>>3332944
Or y'know going out with actual friends and having fun

>> No.3332958

>>3332944
Its Tuesday morning.

>> No.3332952

2666 was strangely compelling. I found myself surprised about how much I cared about the characters. Part four was pretty boring in general though, and yeah, I know guys, that's the point, but just because it's intentionally boring and repetitive doesn't mean it's automatically excusable.

I've only read the first few pages of The Savage Detectives, but I got super excited about how much I liked it that I decided to save it for when I had more free time.

>> No.3332965

>>3332958
He's in Australia.

>> No.3332977

>>3332965
is Australia 3 days ahead or 4 days behind? I can never remember.

>> No.3332982

I really liked Antwerp but I'll have to read it a few more times to form a fuller opinion.

>> No.3333446

>>3332952
>>3332952
This. Most of the characters seemed rather plain but real and I ended up caring about them.

I really enjoyed the Pedro Paramo-esque bits where everything seemed hopeless and I just had the general sense of "there is no escape".

Agreed about part 4.

The last 10-15 pages were remarkably poignant and really, the entirety of book five was pretty damn good. Still a very strange book.

>> No.3333461

>>3333446
I felt exactly this when I first read it in high school. I really want to re-read it since I know a lot more about literature.

I can remember there being a section that mentions David Lynch and it later feeling like a Lynch film. Bolano really knew how to be compelling which is surprising since he was originally a poet.

>> No.3333830

Its BolaÑo

>> No.3333991

>>3333830
This is an American website it can't be helped.

>> No.3334006
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3334006

>>3332406

>no contaban con mi astucia

I love Bolanus.

>> No.3334007

>>3333830

You are a pedantic FAGgot.

>> No.3334011

>>3334007
It's not pedantry, for N and Ñ are completely different letters. To illustrate:

ano = anus
año = year

Diacritics are very important in all the languages that have them. But I don't expect an idiot American teenager with shit for brains to know that.

>> No.3334036

>>3334011

It's pedantry because you go out of your way to entertain semantics. We aren't going to cite the exact foreign name of every author in casual discussion. This entire cite is based around quick shorthand discussion.

And for all your militancy I bet you don't either. You've just picked this one arbitrary time in particular to spaz out like over a non-issue.

And I'm not American, not that it even matters. Still, it's amusing that someone who's defending the importance of proper representation of foreign language would go on a xenophobic tangent in the same post.

Keep failing you desperate try hard.

>> No.3334088

>>3334036
Whine more, buffoon. You don't have the key on your keyboard, I get it. I'm sure it'd kill you to exhibit any sort of respect for the guy by spelling his name right, too.

Just admit you're a slob and move on, chimp.

>> No.3334163

>>3334088

>please take my semantics seriously without this limp-dicked imitation of authority I'll fall apart

What a cute little sperglet you are.