There's really nothing so disconcerting as being near the end of a course, and having the text finally returned from Barnes and Noble, thus having to read the text on GoogleBooks, where random pages are omitted. Ugh.
Anyhow, what a nice, snarky story. Bolano has a real grasp of language, everything seems to float and glide ephemerally, and it has a very poetic effect. However, it failed to really grasp my attention. I can appreciate the criticism of the Chilean intelligentsia, and the appearance of Neruda (after I've been longing to buy a particular collection of his for the past month or so), but the story itself just didn't seem that interesting at all. I was a tad disappointed, but my version was also missing some pages.
I really don't know what to say about it. I think I must be missing something more than pages; I just didn't get it.
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
ggm
Hurray for GGM.
My mind is scattered to about fifty different corners of the world right now. What an awful week. I can't do this in an orderly fashion, apologies.
The act of relentless letter-writing is also present in his novel Love In The Time of Cholera. There's a whorehouse there, too, and I feel there must be one in memories fo My Melancholy Whores as well, which I've yet to read.
Dreams. Interpretation of dreams. The subconscious tied the mystical in a superstitious culture. Animation of lifeless things- such as the kitchen breathing on page 9.
"Sacrificial tools" used to kill Santiago. Same instruments used to kill pigs. Santiago expresses a desire not see animal deaths early in the narratie, when rabbit entrails are torn out and thrown to the dogs.
Narrator is collecting accounts, sort of like a journalist.
p.82 folk remedies
My mind is scattered to about fifty different corners of the world right now. What an awful week. I can't do this in an orderly fashion, apologies.
The act of relentless letter-writing is also present in his novel Love In The Time of Cholera. There's a whorehouse there, too, and I feel there must be one in memories fo My Melancholy Whores as well, which I've yet to read.
Dreams. Interpretation of dreams. The subconscious tied the mystical in a superstitious culture. Animation of lifeless things- such as the kitchen breathing on page 9.
"Sacrificial tools" used to kill Santiago. Same instruments used to kill pigs. Santiago expresses a desire not see animal deaths early in the narratie, when rabbit entrails are torn out and thrown to the dogs.
Narrator is collecting accounts, sort of like a journalist.
p.82 folk remedies
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