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My initial thought after finishing the last page I intended to read for this week (pp. 90-190) was that I tried to figure out whether I liked The Savage Detectives more or Conversation in the Cathedral and I genuinely do not have an answer. I compare them so much I don’t know why. However one … Continue reading San Marcos, Lima, Peru Continue reading →

Desperate books, or books that cause desperation? I am sure that every reader has a type of literature they feel comfortable with, a kind of literature they enjoy and with which falling asleep is not an option; a literature and a type of stories, of narratives, that holds the reader’s attention word by word and […] Continue reading →

I must say, it’s been nice to get a break from Juan García Madero’s narration — and from Juan García Madero in general, if I’m honest. I kept thinking that one of the characters in part two would talk about him when they talked about Ulises Lima and Arturo Belano, but nothing so far, and … Continue reading →

Hello everybody! I surprisingly miss Garcia Madero. I am not sure if it is very effective to have so many narrators to talk abut Belano and Lima. However , i did enjoy some of them and how the ideas of youth , attachment , sexuality and the literature world is written. I think the author […] Continue reading →

I kind of feel like I cheated a little this week, when I downloaded an .epub copy of The Savage Detectives onto my laptop to read virtually while I was out and about. The whole reading-a-big-book vibe was ruined because I had no real way of conceptualizing how much of the book I had read or […] Continue reading →

I have to say I’m quite surprised by the shift in style in the second part of The Savage Detectives. Obviously, I knew from lectures that we hear less from Garcia Madero, but I certainly did not expect a major shift in the approach that Roberto Bolaño writes. In general, I have mixed feelings about […] Continue reading →

As I cozied up to start the next section of The Savage Detectives, I was very curious to see where the story would take me. I want to know what happens to Lupe, and I wonder how Garcia Madero will continue to mature. At first, I felt a bit lost in this new narrators and […] Continue reading →

I keep changing my mind on whether I liked the second part of the book better or the first. At first, I did not like the book at all but I feel like I’m getting used to it now. Now that I’ve read more of the book I’m starting to like the first half of […] Continue reading →

Unlike the very first part of The Savage Detectives, I’m not going into this second part completely blind because of our discussions in class where it was mentioned that this second part would take a shift from García Madero’s journal entries to a multi-narrative style (multiperspectivity? polyperspectivity? polyphonic narration? I just searched on Google “word for multiple narrators” … Continue reading The Savage Detectives II (pp. 143-205) Continue reading →

Alberto Moore’s entry begins as such: “What Luisito says is true, up to a point. My sister is an utter lunatic, yes, but she’s charming, only twenty-two, a year older than me, and an extremely intelligent woman” (p.162). It got Continue reading Week 4: What’s This Written For – I love Perla – Memory Palace→ Continue reading →