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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

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Introduction

Hi! My name is Juli, I’m a grad student at the FHIS, in the Hispanic Studies program. I did a Literary Studies program as my undergrad in the Universidad Javirana in Bogotá, Colombia, from where I am from. I have to sincere and say I do not have many expectations from this class, as in, […] Continue reading

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