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The Savage Detectives A Novel Roberto Bolaño Natasha Wimmer Books

My favorite novel. Please read this book while you’re still young and still inhabit a world that isn’t too large to have lost its charms. It took me four months to read The Savage Detectives the first time, even though I read it every day, because this is the sort of book that rewires the very circuits of your soul. It haunts the emotional background of your day-of-day life long after you set it down. Of course, back then I was 19 and living in New York and primed for all manners of literary cliche. Now that I’m older, and slightly more aware of just how impossibly large this world is, I am eager to read it a second time.


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The Savage Detectives A Novel Roberto Bolaño Natasha Wimmer Books Reviews

Every so often you come upon a book that you can only diminish the more you try to explain what it's about. "The Savage Detectives" is such a book. Ostensibly it's about a couple of wild young poets who revive an old literary movement and go in search of its forebears. Ultimately they grow older, become increasingly disillusioned, never attain their once-lofty aspirations, heading straight for neglect and oblivion...and yet through everything they still hold on to a belief--a faith, if you will--in poetry and revolution.

Okay, that's, in a nutshell, what the novel is "about."

But the experience of reading "The Savage Detectives" is one that cannot be described in words other than those Bolano himself used to create this passionate and poetic adventure of heart, mind, and soul. This is a book that follows two characters--through the eyes of a dozen or so other characters--who take literature seriously, as a matter of life and death, not as a mere pastime, not as simple entertainment. If you don't share something of the same conviction, you're likely not to get the point of this novel; actually, you're likely to conclude that there isn't any point to it at all.

This is a novel that cannot be contained, nor can it contain itself. If it's difficult to say precisely what it's about, that's in good part because it's about everything--about life and death, about love and art, about beauty and squalor, corruption and violence, humanity and inhumanity. "The Savage Detectives" has the tone and authority of a summing up of all that Bolano had seen and thought in his abbreviated life--a message he was desperate to get down, if not in the most symmetrical of forms, than in a far more honest, if messy, explosion of urgency.

This novel throbs with life and intensity--it manages to be both unbearably sad and irresistibly inspiring. Bolano writes as if he's running only a step or two in front of the burning fuse, which, as it turns out, he was. In the end, though, we all share the same fate. And it seems a good part of Bolano's intent to get us to realize, viscerally, as his fictional "visceral realist" poets do, that time is short and the world is big. Let's live while we can.

It's tempting to call "The Savage Detectives" the best book I've read all year, but such an assertion would no doubt be suspect because of the fact that it's the most recent book I've read. It is, however, at the very least, among the best books I've read in this or any year.

Take the negative reviews of "The Savage Detectives" under advisement. So many of them complain precisely about those things that make this novel so unique and so powerful. Like his even more ambitious "2666," "The Savage Detectives" simply isn't everyone's favorite slice of pie. There are people, after all, who hate coconut custard. Go figure.
Loved the opening section. As for second section, am stuck on about page 400 and can't decide whether to finish or not. The second section has some very ugly, unexplained parts (like when the author's alter-ego is trying to strangle someone on a beach) and some parts that just seem to have been written and included compulsively and drag out the text unnecessarily. It also has a hilarious scene in a publisher's office very reminiscent of Bulgakov, can't decide whether this was intentional nor not.

Any writer who wants instruction in how to orient the reader to time and place should take this book as the only lesson they will need. Also, in a novel about poets, not one line of poetry from the main characters...fantastic device. No, this is not a character-driven book it is about the life and death of a way of life and way of seeing the world, of a time and place that the author misses very much. If you view Visceral Realism in Mexico City in the late 1970's as a character in its own right, you will be just as saddened to see it unraveling, along with its leaders, as you would with any other literary character.

This edition is worth reading for the author's comments in interviews on Latin American literature alone....never liked Vargas Llosa or Isabel Allende, or Laura Esquivel, and I now feel freed.
I really did enjoy this novel immensely, but there were a few aspects that often left me confused or just plain bothered.
Several times, they list writers of their time. Since a few obscure real-life writers' names show up, I assume all these are real. If I were more familiar with these writers, I would probably get the satire, but I am not so I didn't get it.
On the other hand, the story is fascinating! And though I was disappointed when the narrator disappeared, I did find it fun to follow these characters all over the world. And you won't understand the title at all until then end. And even then, not completely.
Bolaño is a genious. Or he was. It's tragic that he died so young, just when he was picking up speed. So many stories we will miss out on.
My favorite novel. Please read this book while you’re still young and still inhabit a world that isn’t too large to have lost its charms. It took me four months to read The Savage Detectives the first time, even though I read it every day, because this is the sort of book that rewires the very circuits of your soul. It haunts the emotional background of your day-of-day life long after you set it down. Of course, back then I was 19 and living in New York and primed for all manners of literary cliche. Now that I’m older, and slightly more aware of just how impossibly large this world is, I am eager to read it a second time.