"The Savage Detectives, which, like 2666, has been translated with wonderful agility by Natasha Wimmer, catapulted [Bolaño] from obscurity to worshipful adulation."
-- "Janet Maslin, New York Times"
"A bizarre and mesmerizing novel...It's a lustful story--lust for sex, lust for self, lust for the written word."
-- "Esquire"
"An instant cult hit among readers and practically a fetish object to critics."
-- "Time "
"An utterly unique achievement--a modern epic rich in character and event...[Bolaño is] the most important writer to emerge from Latin America since García Márquez."
-- "San Francisco Chronicle"
"By turns humorous and sad, this literary mystery also affirms the value of literature and serves as a modern history of the Latin American literary scene. Critics praised Bolaño's vivid, experimental novel, applauding Natasha Wimmer's skillful translation from the chatty, slang-filled Spanish...inventive and entertaining."
-- "Bookmarks Magazine"
"Combustible...A glittering, tumbling diamond of a book...When you are done with this book, you will believe there is no engine more powerful than the human voice."
-- "Star Tribune (Minneapolis)"
"One of the most respected and influential writers of [his] generation...At once funny and vaguely, pervasively, frightening."
-- "Nation "
"Roberto Bolaño's masterwork...confirms this Chilean's status as Latin America's literary enfant terrible."
-- "Vogue"
"The late Chilean writer Bolaño's 1998 (US 2007) novel begins with a seventeen-year-old's diary entries describing life in 1970 Mexico City. The narrative's second part is a meditation on the visceral realism movement founded by poets Ulises Lima and Arturo Bolaño, capped by their search twenty years previously for the poet Cesárea Tinajero. This Latin American On the Road presents a dreamlike patchwork of Lima and Belaño's adventures from which to reconstruct their literary pilgrimage. Narrators Eddie Lopez and Armando Duran reinforce the novel's sense of place with their rounded pronunciations. Essential."
-- "Library Journal, Best Audiobooks of 2009 (starred review)"
"Wildly enjoyable...Bolaño beautifully manages to keep his comedy and his pathos in the same family."
-- "New York Times Book Review"
An exuberantly sprawling, politically charged picaresque novel.
-- "Elle"
Deeply satisfying...Bolano's book throws down a great, clunking, formal gauntlet to his readers' conventional expectations.
-- "Los Angeles Times "
This novel-the major work from Chilean-born novelist Bolano, here beautifully translated by Wimmer-will allow English speaking readers to discover a truly great writer...There are copious, and acidly hilarious, references to the Latin American literary scene, and one needn't be an insider to get the jokes: they're all in Bolano's masterful shifts in tone, captured with precision by Wimmer...Bolano fashions an engrossing lost world of youth and utopian ambition, as particular and vivid as it is sad and uncontainable.
-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)" --Deze tekst verwijst naar een alternatieve kindle_edition editie. Over de auteur
Born in Chile in 1953, Roberto Bolaño fled to Mexico after the military government took power in the late 1960s. There he helped found the infrarealist movement. He later settled with his wife and children in northern Spain, where he died in 2003. He received all of that country's highest literary awards, including the Romulo Gallegos Prize for The Savage Detectives. In 2004 he was honored by the First Conference of Latin American Authors as "the most important literary discovery of our time."
Born in Chile in 1953, Roberto Bolaño fled to Mexico after the military government took power in the late 1960s. There he helped found the infrarealist movement. He later settled with his wife and children in northern Spain, where he died in 2003. He received all of that country's highest literary awards, including the Romulo Gallegos Prize forThe Savage Detectives. In 2004 he was honored by the First Conference of Latin American Authors as "the most important literary discovery of our time."
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