Posts Tagged: Savage Detectives

Fame and Literature, Irreconcilable Enemies

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Reflecting on what might become of Roberto Bolaño, and his fame, John Yargo covers two biographies of the Chilean writer for the Los Angeles Review of Books, noting that these scholars had to “face a unique problem”: The seductive popular image of [Bolaño]—something like a better-read Burroughs—is at odds with the voice of his fiction […]

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