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Los Detectives Salvajes (Narrativas Hispanicas) (Narrativas Hispanicas) (Narrativas Hispanicas) (Spanish Edition) | 
 enlarge | Author: Roberto Bolano
Publisher: Anagrama
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 405122
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 609
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.4 x 1.4
ISBN: 8433910868
EAN: 9788433910868
ASIN: 8433910868
Publication Date: January 1, 1998
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Arturo Belano y Ulises Lima, los detectives salvajes, salen a buscar las huellas de Cesarea Tinajero, la misteriosa escritora desaparecida en Mexico en los anos inmediatamente posteriores a la Revolucion, y esa busqueda el viaje y sus consecuencias se prolonga durante veinte anos, desde 1976 hasta 1996, el tiempo canonico de cualquier errancia, bifurcandose a traves de multiples personajes y continentes, en una novela en donde hay de todo: amores y muertes, asesinatos y fugas turisticas, manicomios y universidades, desapariciones y apariciones. Sus escenarios son Mexico, Nicaragua, Estados Unidos, Francia, Espana, Austria, Israel, africa, siempre al compas de los detectives salvajes poetas desperados, traficantes ocasionales, Arturo Belano y Ulises Lima, los enigmaticos protagonistas de este libro que puede leerse como un refinadisimo thriller wellesiano, atravesado por un humor iconoclasta y feroz. Entre los personajes destaca un fotografo espanol en el ultimo escalon de la desesperacion, un neonazi borderline, un torero mexicano jubilado que vive en el desierto, una estudiante francesa lectora de Sade, una prostituta adolescente en permanente huida, una procer uruguaya en el 68 latinoamericano, un abogado gallego herido por la poesia, un editor mexicano perseguido por unos pistoleros a sueldo?
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 Am I missing something? January 5, 2005
20 out of 44 found this review helpful
Ever since this Bolano fellow died--prematurely, as it happens--a couple of years ago, there's been quite a fuss about his work. I read _Los detectives salvajes_ to find out what all that fuss was about. Now, more than six hundred pages and hours of reading later, I'm still waiting to find out.
First of all, some of the many folks--Amadeo Salvatierra, for one--in this long, polyphonic novel are annoying. Others--Ulises Lima comes to mind--are downright repulsive. For the the young Chilean Arturo Belano, the writer, strangely enough, seems to have some sympathy. The reader will find it difficult to do likewise.
Second, there are descriptions of dreams. Not too many, but enough to grate. When will writers ever learn that the quickest way to lose readers is to describe dreams?
Finally, not once, not once in almost seven hundred pages, did this book make me laugh. The only mildly funny thing about it is the way the "wild detectives" go about their ridiculous and immature undertakings with utter humorlessness. In fact, now that I think about it, the novel is probably about immaturity.
But I did give the thing three stars, didn't I? And it does have some virtues. But they are mostly virtues of omission. There is, thank the Lord, no magic realism. There is little exoticism. Cities are described very succinctly (largely by listing names of streets; reading _Los detectives_ was in some ways like perusing the index to a city atlas). Bolano doesn't use ostentatious tricks to prove he's a genuine postmodernist.
On the whole, I'd say _Los detectives_ is somewhat inferior to Julio Ramon Ribeyro's _Los geniecillos dominicales_, another book with similar themes and a similar cast of characters.
 The ethereal journey. November 9, 2004
27 out of 30 found this review helpful
I was there, I saw them walking on the street leaving the world behind. I was there when they left Mexico and when they came back. I was one of the few who remembers the chilean who saved the girl. I was there when Belano arrived to Africa. I've never understood their motives. I was a distant witness of a story thousands and thousands larger than mine. I was there, like a ghost.
Los Detectives Salvajes is the kind of book that you read to realize that you haven't read enough. This astounding novel takes you in a strange journey following the steps of two latinoamerican poets while they escape from an unknown past. It's a novel about the books that will never be written and the writers who were condemned to be their authors.
I strongly recommend you this book. This is Bolano's best, and Bolano is, undoubtly, one of the best spanish-speaking writters of late 20th century.
The novel that all the next generation writters must read August 12, 2004
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
Enrique VilaMatas said about this book, "And historic Move on to Cortazar's Rayuela". Since then, and a year after Bolano's death, I've hear all kind of opinions. The real fact is, that in despite of comparing the quality, the structure or the author, this book is a step over the latinamerican literature.
In a time when all the american boom's writters had started to repeat each others, "Los detectives Salvajes" is proposing a new kind of literature. A literature that is easy to read (fluid) but hard to understand. As Carver, everything is a metaphore of something big, in an aparently common anecdote.
Maybe you could like this book, maybe not. But it is a MUST if you want to keep in touch with the new literature.
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