Post subject: Re: Roberto Bolaño ( Bolano for the search engine)
Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 2:00 am
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I've always been interested as to how the novel maps out Mexico City; I thought about comparing it to how Boston gets mapped in Infinite Jest, but I can see it in Ulysses, too.
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Post subject: Re: Roberto Bolaño ( Bolano for the search engine)
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 11:45 am
Supersonic
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I miss you guys
And this poem does things to me:
I’ll give you an abyss, she said, but so subtly you will only notice it after many years have passed and you’re far from Mexico and from me. You will discover it when you need it most, and that won’t be the happy ending, but it will be an instant of emptiness and joy. And maybe then you’ll remember me, though not much.
Post subject: Re: Roberto Bolaño ( Bolano for the search engine)
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 3:05 am
Reissued
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Honestly, the stories in that collection are only okay (title story is the best, I think), but the essay "Literature+Illness=Illness" is unfuckwithable. Pretty much Bolaño explicitly stating his aesthetic views.
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Post subject: Re: Roberto Bolaño ( Bolano for the search engine)
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:55 am
AnalLog
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:40 am Posts: 25451 Location: 111 Archer Ave.
So there's a farm-to-market road just west of Shepherd, TX numbered 2666. I rode on it last weekend with some friends on my way back from camping nearby. The road was a lot prettier than the name suggested, which was a big letdown.
Post subject: Re: Roberto Bolaño ( Bolano for the search engine)
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 1:59 am
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Joined: Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:24 am Posts: 6234
Goodman Theatre announces a special staged reading of Roberto Bolaño’s epic novel 2666—co-adapted for the stage and co-directed by Goodman Artistic Director Robert Falls and new Goodman Playwright-in-Residence Seth Bockley—on Monday, December 17 at 6pm as part of Goodman’s December 8 - 23 New Stages series. (Note: The reading of 2666 will last approximately five hours, including three intermissions).
a few years ago i went to robert falls's production of The Seagull, which was excellent. this reading could go a lot of different ways, but i'm still attending
Post subject: Re: Roberto Bolaño ( Bolano for the search engine)
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 5:34 pm
Stone's Bitch
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 6:41 am Posts: 5867 Location: Providence, RI Gender: Male
I think Bolaño would have made a great young adult novelist; he writes adolescence very well (I'm thinking specifically about the "Anna & Jordi" sections of the new book, which is where I am right now). For the record, I'm glad he wasn't a YA novelist (but some of these things might be good to read with high school or young college students, for example).
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