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!@#$%! · 08.08.2010, 06:28 PM

i don't know the other thread but 100 or less? not counting the title.

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LLAMADAS TELEFONICAS by ROBERTO BOLAÑO

Early short-story collection by the author of 2666 features characters in loose or unexistent or uncertain plots; one can feel the influence of Raymond Carver or the Salinger of Nine Stories. Yet Bolaño doesn't strive for realism: his bizarre creatures face situations that often push the imagination without becoming fantastic. These characters are born of borrowed literature as much as everyday experience or history-- alongside many films the characters watch while we in turn watch them, the specter of political genocide in South America is a constant presence in these uneven but haunting dreams of doomed relationships and people. (99)

08.08.2010, 06:28 PM	#2
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,462	i don't know the other thread but 100 or less? not counting the title. --- LLAMADAS TELEFONICAS by ROBERTO BOLAÑO Early short-story collection by the author of 2666 features characters in loose or unexistent or uncertain plots; one can feel the influence of Raymond Carver or the Salinger of Nine Stories. Yet Bolaño doesn't strive for realism: his bizarre creatures face situations that often push the imagination without becoming fantastic. These characters are born of borrowed literature as much as everyday experience or history-- alongside many films the characters watch while we in turn watch them, the specter of political genocide in South America is a constant presence in these uneven but haunting dreams of doomed relationships and people. (99)
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