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has anyone out there bought 'nazi literature in america' yet ?

>>By Mister Baltimore (Friday, 4 Jul 2008 17:39)

I bought it, but haven't read it yet...What have you heard?

>>By Detectiva Salvaje (Monday, 28 Jul 2008 22:36)

has anyone read the English version of 2666?
I just ordered it on amazon.

>>By hustvedt (Wednesday, 12 Nov 2008 21:50)

Bolano era el maestro

>>By hustvedt (Saturday, 15 Nov 2008 00:13)

I've read everything by Bolano, who was an unbelievably good writer. "2666" is his masterpiece and is about nothing less than the origin and nature of evil. All his other books were essentially dry runs for "2666." The title, never memtioned in the book itself, comes from his earlier book "Amuleto," in which his narrator describes an avenue in Mexico City that I know well. It's depicted at night, and she, the narrator, says: "Then we walked down the Avenida Guerrero, they [the night boys she is following] weren't stepping so lightly any more, and I wasn't feeling too enthusiastic either. Guerrero, at that time of night, is more like a cemetery than an avenue, not a cemetery in 1974 or 1968, or 1975, but a cemetery in 2666, a forgotten cemetery under the eyelid of a corpse or an unborn child, bathed in the dispassionate fluids of an eye that tried so hard to forget one particular thing that it ended up forgetting everything else."

There are thousands of cross-references like this in his work. Que bueno.

>>By Converse (Tuesday, 17 Mar 2009 01:55)

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