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Novelist Obessed With Mythmaking Novelists Unexpectedly Accused of Mythmaking
Roberto Bolaño allegedly made up his addiction to heroin. How Archimboldian!
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Roberto Bolaño allegedly made up his addiction to heroin. How Archimboldian!
We asked Alan Page, translator of the screenplays '21 Grams' and 'Babel,' to find out how Wimmer did it.
If you’re thinking of quitting, try one of these first. It might inspire you to settle in and read the rest.
Is Roberto Bolaño's masterpiece, '2666,' really any more difficult than two seasons of 'Mad Men'?
Read it for Bolaño’s obvious improvisational delight in keeping the sentence afloat, phrase by phrase — a skill the critic James Wood once compared to 'someone punting a leaf.'
We judge Roberto Bolaño's purported masterpiece by its covers and find it quadruply sexy.