Strange and chaotic book | The Savage Detectives: A Novel

book: The Savage Detectives: A Novel | Roberto Bolano

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	• The Savage Detectives: A Novel Roberto Bolano Picador, 2008 - 672 pages average customer review:based on 42 reviews view larger image
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Original and thought-provoking

Although it took me three months to read this book, I thought it was very worthwhile. The first part drew me in with interesting characters, many in the prime of youth and full of idealism and enthusiasm for poetry and love. The second part was, at times, difficult. So many different narrators. So many different stories. After a while there seemed to be a sameness to many of them: similar cadence, a matter-of-fact style of exposition. Many of the voices seemed to be articulate in a similar way. I suppose some of this could be a result of the translation. Some of the stories were more distinct and memorable than others. I have to admit, I almost gave up more than once.

The more I stuck with it, though, the more I came to think that complaining about the similarities of the individual narratives was like complaining that a mosaic is made up of similar tiles. When I finished this book, I felt that I had read a beautiful, melancholic mosaic whose subject was nothing less than life. The meandering, unexpected, dendriform (to use a word from the book), and frequently tragic nature of life. If you are intrigued by this book, don't be dissuaded by the negative reviews here. It is a challenging book, but also a rewarding and thought-provoking one.

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Strange and chaotic book

First of all if you are trying to grasp Bolaño I would recommend by far 2666 (Narrativas Hispanicas) (Paperback)2666: A Novel, an excellent novel.
I read the Spanish version and the Mexican slang all over the novel can be sometimes overwhelming.
The story is chaotic nevertheless amusing. But It's all you get so be prepared.

National Bestseller

In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolaño tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe: our own. The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age.

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