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The Savage Detectives – III: Two visceral realist poets

Posted on February 23, 2026 by Eli

In this third part, reading The Savage Detectives has been a little more enjoyable, as this collections of stories are presented in a chain of everyday events such as illness, holiday, death and love. This closeness to everyday life, in my perception, gives the characters a more realistic, verosimilitud, and particular personality and voice, which begins to differentiate them, as well as giving each one of them a characteristic that draws a particular face and voice, unlike what I felt with the first stories in this chapter, The Savage Detectives…read more Continue reading →

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Walking hand in hand with time

Posted on February 11, 2026 by Eli

In my experience reading this short novel by Bolaño, time seems to me not as a reference to a time frame in which Amulet takes place, or through which Auxilio moves linearly. For me, the time of Amulet is an element that walks hand in hand with Auxilio Lacouture. It is almost like a crocheted blanket that she knits and then unravels, and to which she returns when she feels like it. Time in this novel is both a factual event that occurs and a dream that haunts Auxilio, leading…read more Continue reading →

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Cuánto tiempo era el presente? 1985-1986?

Posted on February 4, 2026 by Eli

There are books that I enjoy reading and others that I try to understand, and Mariana Enriquez’s Nuestra parte de noche falls into the first group; because of the way the stories of Juan and Gaspar are hilando (woven together), one on top of the other, because of the mixture of supernatural events and the […] Continue reading →