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!@#$%! · 12.17.2019, 12:11 PM

currently in the middle of:

monsieur pain (roberto bolaño, 198...2?. published in this century)

featuring a similarly highly subjective, imprecise narrator as we’d find in the latter “una novelita lumpen,” and it’s at times hard to tell what is dream and what is reality, this is a book about... books? not really, but the story circles around a latin american poet in paris in the 1930s, and there are countless literary allusions, mainly to do with poets and poetry.

the strangest thing of all is that this cover picture i linked above is hosted by... walmart! mallarmé at walmart- who knew it was possible? well...

parts of it might be slightly alien to inhabitants to the anglosphere, but some familiarity with the literary scene of paris in the years before the war, spanish civil war, etc, would be helpful to approach it.

12.17.2019, 12:11 PM	#5801
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,465	currently in the middle of: monsieur pain (roberto bolaño, 198...2?. published in this century) featuring a similarly highly subjective, imprecise narrator as we’d find in the latter “una novelita lumpen,” and it’s at times hard to tell what is dream and what is reality, this is a book about... books? not really, but the story circles around a latin american poet in paris in the 1930s, and there are countless literary allusions, mainly to do with poets and poetry. the strangest thing of all is that this cover picture i linked above is hosted by... walmart! mallarmé at walmart- who knew it was possible? well... parts of it might be slightly alien to inhabitants to the anglosphere, but some familiarity with the literary scene of paris in the years before the war, spanish civil war, etc, would be helpful to approach it.
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