Can we finally agree that this is one of the best books of the XX century?

Can we finally agree that this is one of the best books of the XX century?
What's your opinion about Bolaño?

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I think 2666 is superior, his prose is much better in it
TSD is also pretty good, but overrated in my opinion, didn't really care for the first part of the book. I really enjoyed the interviews of Joaquin Font, the nazi guy, the guy from africa and some other ones I don't remember right now because I read some time ago
Haven't read any of his other books, but I want to

-What is great about that book is the middle part (most of the book), which is a great collection of short stories in the form of interviews to different people.
The sudden break between the first part and the middle part is quite jarring at first, but it´s all worth it.

-He surely would have won the nobel if he had not died so young.

even IJ is better desu
bolaño is just brosocialist circular-jerking material

Nah, Bolaño was just a poet who experienced the full impact of the death of postmodernism as a serious movement.

IIRC he was a poet who got cancer, knew he had perhaps only 10 more years to live, and dedicated himself to writing novels at a frantic pace, hoping to earn money through literary contest prizes, and hoping his novels would sell, because he had a wife and a kid, and he wanted their life to be decent when he was gone.

All of his novels were written in a hurry.

I agree, though 2666 is far more accomplished

Wrong.
He always had liver problems (he even talks about it on SD), but 2666 was the only novel he wrote "on a hurry".

Savage Detectives has so many great chapters, but 2666 is better. Also By Night in Chile is underrated as hell.

BNIC is a quiet masterpiece.

If you can understand spanish I rec this interview, he talks about literature and namedrops quite a few Veeky Forums's memes, is a comfy watch
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someone should put english subtitles on it desu, i will not because im lazy

i hate 2666

should i bother with the savage detectives?

What did you not like?

>im a pleb
no, you should stick with murakami

Depends why you hated it. Personally I found The Savage Detectives to be a more difficult read, though it is more lighthearted.
If you didn't like the length and all the literature-obsessed characters in 2666 you'll REALLY hate the Savage detectives.

I really enjoyed SD and have 2666 on my to-read shelf. There were few chapters I didn't like but I was impressed by the way he could write so subtlely different between characters point of view.

I would like to know what does Pynchon think about mariachi Pynchon's work

Well, I only can describe it as comfylly depressive. Youth at its highest and its lowest.
What happened to García Madero?

>Bolaño is patrician

Without a doubt a mastahpeeeece

he was probably the person interviewing

How is Nazi Lit in the Americas? SD seems kind of cringey to me but I'll get around to reading 2666.

Was he obsessed with Nazis or something?

2666 made me put the book down and walk outside and stare, it made my mind work to try to understand what i had read.

Savage Detectives made me go "oh, interesting first chapter, but the rest is some pretentious mexican fucks sleeping on couches around europe and fucking girls via namedropping"

Same here. 2666 was rattling around my mind for months after I finished it. It's a book which really made an impression on me. It's his grand, imperfect masterpiece.

all ive read is Nazi Literatures in the Americas and i honestly loved. you gotta get a few chapters in until you get a feel for what its goin for. the very last chapter is great. pick it up, its a short read

Savage Detectives is a complete Bolano in-joke wank fest. Terrible book for the most part, and I'm a huge fan of 2666 (actually his only worthwhile novel).

So guys,

What's behind the window?

a nazi living in south america, of course

The reader

I read the first section over the Christmas break. I never did jump into the section that follows it which seems to switch gears somewhat. At some point I'll go back to it I'm sure.

You dun goofed, the part about the interviews is the best part

Perhaps I'll go back to it sooner rather than later then, while it's still somewhat fresh in mind.

Nazi Lit was my first foray into Bolano and absolutely loved it.

Nazi's are a versatile villain. But in the aforementioned work, B. takes a bit of an empathetic eye towards them, not making them up to be caricatures of pure evil, but individuals with faults and mislaid sympathies

yes
I read tsd first and loved it
read 2666 expecting more of that, but came away thinking it was mediocre in comparison
I suspect the circlejerk over it is mostly because of the posthumous release

I read TSD in a week while waylaid by the flu, so some of it feels hazy. The following summer, I read 2666 in a span of two weeks and felt it was okay by the end. But for some reason it permeated my mind, I kept thinking about the ominous presence it had. Found myself flocking back to it, reading certain passages and eventually walking around with it, so I could pull it out and dive in again.


It was a weird summer.

He had been writing it for a few years little by little, it was only during his last days that he would try to finish it in urgency.