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Title	:	The Savage Detectives
Author	:	Roberto Bolaño
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 577 pages
Published	:	April 3rd 2007 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (first published 1998)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Cultural. Latin American

The Savage Detectives

Roberto Bolaño

Hardcover | Pages: 577 pages

Rating: 4.12 | 30387 Users | 3170 Reviews

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New Year’s Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run.

The explosive first long work by “the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time” (Ilan Stavans, Los Angeles Times), The Savage Detectives follows Belano and Lima through the eyes of the people whose paths they cross in Central America, Europe, Israel, and West Africa. This chorus includes the muses of visceral realism, the beautiful Font sisters; their father, an architect interned in a Mexico City asylum; a sensitive young follower of Octavio Paz; a foul-mouthed American graduate student; a French girl with a taste for the Marquis de Sade; the great-granddaughter of Leon Trotsky; a Chilean stowaway with a mystical gift for numbers; the anorexic heiress to a Mexican underwear empire; an Argentinian photojournalist in Angola; and assorted hangers-on, detractors, critics, lovers, employers, vagabonds, real-life literary figures, and random acquaintances.

A polymathic descendant of Borges and Pynchon, Roberto Bolaño traces the hidden connection between literature and violence in a world where national boundaries are fluid and death lurks in the shadow of the avant-garde. The Savage Detectives is a dazzling original, the first great Latin American novel of the twenty-first century.

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Original Title:	Los detectives salvajes
ISBN:	0374191484 (ISBN13: 9780374191481)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Ulises Lima, Arturo Belano, Auxilio Lacouture, Ernesto San Epifanio, María Font, Angélica Font, Julio César Álamo, Cesárea Tinajero, Laura Jáuregui, Alberto Moore
Setting:	Mexico City (México City)(Mexico)
Literary Awards:	Premio Herralde de Novela (1998), Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos (1999), BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction shortlist (2008)

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This novel has caused me great distress (not so much reading, but trying to figure out just how many of those little stars to dish out). I could have opted for a measly two because when it dragged me by the feet into a room of boredom (the middle third) it decided to drag big time, only to drag some more..."AAAHHH, let me out!, can't take any more!". But as a stubborn individual there was no way this was going to beat me, I huffed, and I puffed, and I set my eyes to work, as sometimes we have to

"Always remember you are unique, just like everyone else." Author: UnknownThere are no true individuals. Bolaño knew this. Juan García Madero did not know this. When we were 17 years old, none of us knew this either. Sometimes when we're 30 we still don't know this. And if we're lucky/unlucky/smart/stupid maybe when we're 60 we won't know this then either.This book is a lingering smoke cloud, a feeling that will not go away, impending doom?, recognition?, a satire of the literary world and a

Whats a Giggle Amongst Family and Friends?I bought this book 15 months ago. I finished it yesterday. It started off as a crisp, thin-leafed semi-brick whose 648 pages intimidated me. I only got the courage to read it when a discussion group gave me the impetus I needed. Now, it sits less crisp, but read, on my desk, wondering who will read it next. Like me, its 15 months older, but we are both easing into middle age and are still making new friends. We two are friends now, as if weve known each

I hate the description for this novel. Anything longer than a single paragraph is destined for bloviation, an Excel graph of key phrases selling itself to as many bidders as possible. A long list of characters fishing for the lay reader's empathy? Borges and Pynchon for those who don't need that sort of nonsense? Please. If it gets more people reading Bolaño, sure, but these days that's the end all excuse for literature in a capitalist society. The least we can do is point it out and follow it

I am struggling over writing this review. The Savage Detectives has become an important book to me, and Im trying to find the best way to put a whole series of associations, emotions, and thoughts into words about how it has entered into my life and mind and heart. I have a tendency to hide behind a lot of formal analysis when I am writing, but I dont think that approach is good enough for this review. I just met a close friend from graduate school for dinner last week - he now lives in San



In this quasi-autobiographical story, a group of intense young poets, men and women, knock around in mid-1970s Mexico City. Their lives are poetry: reading it, writing poems, trying to get them published in fly-by-night literary magazines that only they read. The intensity of their love for poetry is disarming. They exist in odd hours, wander aimlessly through the city, drink, make love, steal books from bookstores, and talk poetry constantly. As they get older they become émigrés in Europe,