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De wilde detectives
Geschreven door Roberto BolaƱo
Geplaatst op 17-09-2021 om 10:16

When I read this book I swallowed a world.

There are a lot of things in this book that I usually hate: too many narrators (also unreliable and oftentimes assholes), loses momentum sometimes, etc.etc. But Bolano makes you READ. This isn't a book you can just sit back and go along with. You have to do much of the work, and you definitely reap the rewards of whatever work you do.
It's both self-mocking and self-congratulatory. The narrators are lovable, pathetic, obsessive, heroic, sad, sweeping, hopeful, spacey, logical, young. There is so much, and yet there are so many holes in logic, time, knowledge, and trust.