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Dec 8, 2008 · Setting off on a dubious path is the central metaphorical act for Bolano – but it was transformed from juvenilia to serious literature only once he had willed a new identity for himself, no longer flattering the inflations of the rebel, but becoming the ultimate self-revolutionary, condemning himself to the guillotine.
Sep 22, 2014 · “Metaphors,” a character from his book 2666 says, “are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming. In that sense a metaphor is like a life jacket.”
Apr 19, 2009 · Belano and Lima explain the poem to Amadeo Salvatierra, but only why it is a joke, not the serious meaning that it hides. Of course the poem by Cesárea Tinajero, if it is a poem, - and why not? -, is a metaphor for life and its true meaning is revealed by the middle section as a whole.
Fresán’s metaphor is very suggestive, and certainly it is in Antwerp where several of Bolaño’s themes, images, and ideas about writing exploded and continuously expanded, forming the universe of his literary legacy.
In Bolaño, it is always the moral toad who expresses himself like a prince. Bolaño is unliterary, anti-literary. In 1976, in his early twenties, after publishing a book of poems,...
Nov 12, 2008 · By bringing scents of a Latin American culture more fitful, pop-savvy and suspicious of earthy machismo than that which it succeeds, Bolaño has been taken as a kind of reset button on our...
Aug 20, 2012 · It is a huge anthology of monologues and solitary thoughts from people trapped in an era. 2666 was the first Bolano I read, and it had me totally entranced. Looking back, Savage Detectives is almost more tragic and funny… less filler, but a lot of minutiae.
