Books by Roberto Bolaño
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review 1: La patria de un escritor, dijo, es su lengua. Suena m��s bien demag��gico, pero coincido plenamente con ��l, y s�� que a veces no nos queda m��s remedio que ponernos demag��gicos, as�� como a veces no nos queda m��s remedio que bailar un bolero a la luz de unos faroles o de una l...
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review 1: A beautiful fractured mess. To the uninitiated with Bolaño it's pretty much unreadable (unless taken as poetry or a book of prose poems, which it pretty much is anyway), but for diehards like me, it's all there. It reads like a failed detective story broken up into fragments and ...
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review 1: Con todas las desventajas de lo que Echevarría nombra como "poética de la inconclusión", éstos bosquejos y pensamientos ensayísticos me parecen del todo exquisitos. Es cierto que el completismo no salva a un autor y lo transforma en un mero ícono religioso coleccionable, es "obje...
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review 1: Bolano is so many things at once – a fabulist, a man of lists, an author who uses humor and irony so deftly that it all becomes quite poetic. And he is also a man of many nooks and crannies who glories and delights in the many ways he can mine that vein of his own special litera...
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review 1: If you must know, this is the lowest rating I've ever given a Bolano book. Which is not to say that it doesn't have its appeal. Rather it just doesn't hold together. Sure there is the intrigue of the reoccurring hunchback, the campground, interesting tidbits of death, sex, and...
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review 1: I've read 7 or 8 of Bolano's books--though neither of the doorstops--and find myself generally disappointed. This collection of stories and essays, however, is quite good, except for the tedious story "Police Rat." I would rank it second only to Monsieur Pain, which I found quite...
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review 1: Set in Northern Mexico, this novel has similarities to 2666, but doesn't focus on the Juarez murders. It's about an itinerant exiled professor who is booted out of his Spanish job when he begins a gay affair with a well-drawn character who is an artist, and one of his students. I...
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review 1: I'm new to Bolano, so I wouldn't take my opinion really seriously. I was pretty lost in the sections covering Archimbolde. I really enjoyed listening to the narrator except when he spoke French; his French was pretty bad, but I guess it's amazing that his Spanish was excellent, ...
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review 1: I have to admit that having fallen for the hype that surrounds Roberto Bolano, 'Woes of the True Policeman' was disappointing. Throughout reading the book I though that so much of the writing is so fluid, and yet the story itself is as disjointed as the 'hero's' life, and not in ...
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review 1: He has a unique style, that is very segmented, prose like that takes a bit to adjust to. With the small size of the book, I would say it is worth reading, because there are certainly some interesting passages. Also, he does a great job of mixing the very dirty aspects of humanity...
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review 1: Mi sono innamorata di Pepe El tira!
review 2: Solo con el Gaucho insufrible y Jim, nos bastaria para recomendar este libro!Recomendable
review 2: Solo con el Gaucho insufrible y Jim, nos bastaria para recomendar este libro!Recomendable
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review 1: There's just one poem I really liked from this collection. Vale la pena.
review 2: There's just one poem I really liked from this collection. Vale la pena.
review 2: There's just one poem I really liked from this collection. Vale la pena.
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review 1: En aquel tiempo tenía yo treinta años, comenzé a leer a Bolaño y reafirmé mi locura...
review 2: Excellent poems and the translation to English is very good. This is a must read book.
review 2: Excellent poems and the translation to English is very good. This is a must read book.
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review 1: It should have been me. Shrug.
review 2: I'm reading a review copy of the new directions edition which is now appearing in the usa
review 2: I'm reading a review copy of the new directions edition which is now appearing in the usa