Monthly Archives: January 2026
Potential for a strange book?
I have to admit that I’m not quite sure what to think of this book so far. I got pulled into it right away – I quite enjoy the journal-entry-style-writing and I was interested following the story of García Madero’s shift from being a law student to joining a group of poets. The part in […] Continue reading
Rough beginnings
I tried to like it. I genuinely did. And at the end I did; somewhat. I hope that Bolaño’s intention with Garcia Madero’s epistolar writing in the first part of Los detectives salvajes (1998) was to generate some kind of disgust. I would not say this first part was boring; quite the contrary. It was full […] Continue reading
The Savage Detectives I
The first part of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives, just under 140 pages (in the Picador edition) and entitled “Mexicans Lost in Mexico (1975),” is presented as a series of diary entries written by one Juan García Madero between the … Continue reading Continue reading
Hello world!
Welcome to My Blog!
Hi everyone, welcome to my very first blog! My name is Ava, and I’m a 4th year Political Science student. Now, you might be wondering how I ended up in a Romance Studies seminar. Well… A couple of months before I discovered this course, I realized that all I had been reading was journal articles … Continue reading Welcome to My Blog! Continue reading
RMST 495 1 – Hello!
Hello everyone! My name is Annabelle, and I am a fourth-year French student. I was born in Vancouver, grew up speaking English, took French through high school, and started in FREN 301 at UBC four years ago. Being a French major is cool – I’ve gotten to try poutine downtown, analyse Québec culture through comics […] Continue reading