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Antwerp (2010)

by Roberto Bolaño(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0811217175 (ISBN13: 9780811217170)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

New Directions

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 then rearranged out of order with little poetic impressions, snatched lines of dialogue, and meditations on the writing process. Packed with lines of stray brilliance and those moments of raw powerkeg prose he would later become so famous for. Definitely one to read and digest slowly.
review 2: Originally written in 1980 when Bolaño was 27 years old, not published in Spanish until 2002 and translated into English in 2011, Antwerp is the genesis of his fictional voice. The fractured na... morerration, self-as-character, conversational snippets - it's all here in a much more raw form than his later works. Again, the book ostensibly deals with a murder and its investigation, but is not a mystery. Plot is not the point - atmosphere and language reign supreme. As unstructured and formless as it is, Antwerp is probably only for completists, scholars and the most hardcore of fans. less

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