![]() The story is written in three unequal parts. From the story’s beginning in Mexico City in late 1975, we roam around the world, following the poets on their travels in search of contentment – and running away from something else entirely. It’s a 577-page roller-coaster of a novel, a bizarre, chopped-up account of the lives of two poets, Ulises Lima and Arturo Belano. The Savage Detectives (translated by Natasha Wimmer) is the book which made Bolaño’s name in the English-speaking world, and with good reason. Today’s review is of a big book, one with big ambitions, which takes us to the US, Europe and Africa – but it all starts and ends in Mexico… ![]() The latest in my series of library-sourced Spanish-language books is one by probably the biggest name in Latin-American literature at the moment, Roberto Bolaño (writing being one occupation where death is no obstacle to fame). ![]()
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