Untitled (Desert Landscape) by Salvador Dali
Biblioklept has already published two reviews of Roberto Bolaño’s big novel The Savage Detectives.
In the first review, from 2008, I suggested that the book was technically impressive but ultimately “unmoving.” In the second review, from 2010, Dave Cianci argued that my first review “was unfair and premature.”
I tend to agree with Cianci’s criticism of my early review, although in my defense I struggled with a first reading of The Savage Detectives because I was ignorant of the history of Latin America, Central America, and Mexico, a history that provides much of the context for the Bolañoverse. I was like the auditor in The Savage Detectives who listened as Ulises Lima
reeled off a story that I had trouble following, a story of lost poets and lost magazines and works no one had ever heard of, in the middle of a…
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