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Anversa (2007)

by Roberto Bolaño(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

8838921520 (ISBN13: 9788838921520)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Sellerio

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 science fiction. However, this seems to be the work of one who is in the midst of being authentically lost. Not one looking back on their lost-ness and making sense of it, as is attested by the ample and masterful Savage Detectives and so many good shorter novels. These sentence fragments in Antwerp trail off in a manner of being irreconcilably unfinished. That is all not to say that you shouldn't read Antwerp. Noone can say that it's not interesting.
review 2: Bolano's first nove... morel. A fragmented, jumbled-up look at his life as a young expat in the seamy side of the Costa Brava. A corrupt policeman and his liaison with a girl who works in the drug trade, a hunchback, a Jewish girl, an English writer past his prime, anal sex in a squalid room, murders at a nudist camp site, fragments, phrases, meditations, a railway station at night...it's brilliant, full of despair and hope and the dreams of a young man finding his way in his craft or art. I will clearly have to give Bolano's work another chance. less

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