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Originally Posted by shaunrandol
But for the most part, the middle of the book sagged under its own boring weight. Many of the sentences just zipped past my eyes, like cockroaches skittering across dirty floors. I know what I saw, but couldn’t tell you what I read. Many pages acted as an excuse, it seems, for the author to list his favorite, obscure and/or radical Latin American authors (and their equally obscure publications). As such, Distant Star is probably read best as a sort of Cliffs Notes for the writers and poets influencing Bolaño’s thinking and writing styles. Surely Savage Detectives and 2666 must be better.
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By this text is evident you don't know Bolaño at all. If you read
Savage Detectives and
Nazi Literature in Americas you will check that a basis of his style is to be quoting or inventig names from the Latin American literature overview. This mix of reality and fiction is what drives through the border of Bolaño's creations. The atmosphere is created this way and it is a fundamental part in the structure of almost any work by Roberto Bolaño.