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My Year of Reading Slowly: Roberto Bolaño’s 2666

I finally finished Roberto Bolaño’s novel 2666 last month (912 pages in English; 1,136 in Spanish). It represents a year of reading for me (with some other stuff thrown in, but nothing I stayed with or finished). The beauty of […]

No Translation Possible: On Reading Roberto Bolaño

“Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.” – Roberto Bolaño, “The Savage Detectives”  I have discovered the work of Chilean poet/novelist/essayist, Roberto Bolaño, in the past year. For years […]

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