very good and slightly sickening—such great emptiness
a fast read too, always a plus—maybe took a couple of hours?
great understated prose, not flowery, but lets you move forward, forward, forward in a stream. that the narrative is so vague and ambiguous and contradictory is a huge plus—this isn’t bothered with a lot of facts or descriptions but rather with the point of view about them. not so much made of opinions as of... responses, maybe?
this is the first bolaņo i manage cover to cover, i swear. i started a book of short stories once and dropped it halfway. this one was very straightforward.