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The Savage Detectives: A Novel
Roberto Bolano

Picador, 2008 - 672 pages

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National Bestseller 

In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolaņo 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.




A masterpiece

The Savage Detectives, the Mexican novel of a Chilean writer that spent his last years of life in Barcelona, is one of the few masterpieces that Latin America has produced during the last years. The language skills, the rhythm, the story, the characters, everything is first class literature in this "Looking for a lost Poetess" novel. In spite of the high quality values of his next (posthumous) novel 2666, Roberto Bolaņo reached with the Savage Detectives a height that is very difficult to meet again. As stated in the comment title: a masterpiece.


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Imperfectly entertaining

This book was a lot of fun. It has serious things to say about literature and especially the particular literary scene where it's set, but it's also really funny, even kind of daffy. Many reviewers have pointed out that it rambles and ambles and doesn't always cohere, and that's a fair assessment. This is a book that could have used a good edit, but the author is dead and the book is what it is. I disagree with the reviewers who call it slow, but I did have to force myself to speed up some and not linger and labor over the details and names. Then it was, as I said, a lot fun and yet deadly serious in what it has to say. It wasn't quite the book I wanted it to be, but it was definitely worth the time it took.


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