![]() ![]() "There's just nobody else like him," she says. When Los Detectivos Salvajes - The Savage Detectives - was published nearly 10 years ago, Bolano was quickly hailed as the most important Latin American writer since Gabriel Garcia Marquez.īarbara Epler, the editor of New York publishing house New Directions, has published English translations of three of Bolano's novellas and a collection of short stories. While their movement faded into obscurity, Bolano became a sensation. The infrarealists were known for disrupting poetry readings and publicly despising revered writers such as Octavio Paz. It's Bolano's fictionalized account of his own life as a young writer and ringleader of the 1970s "infrarealism" movement in Mexico City. The Savage Detectives tells the story of Mexico City poets from an underground literary movement who set off on a quest. ![]() It's a novel that's been compared to One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Nobel prize-winning work.īut it took the New York publishing world nearly a decade to discover the late Roberto Bolano's The Savage Detectives, a book that was already well-known in Spanish-speaking literary circles. The Savage Detectives is Roberto Bolano's fictionalized account of his own life as a young writer in Mexico City. ![]()
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