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While I do my best to answer (or forget the question altogether), I think I may retrench and revisit John Ashbery's Other Traditions: the poets profiled in this book of Ashbery's lectures wouldn't be at all out of place in Bolano's novel.

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As for prose, I finally, finally, FINALLY finished Bolano's 2666, which over the course of its 900 pages all but challenges the reader to discern in what way, if any, literature can truly matter in the chaos and horror of the world.

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I've bowed to no one in my advance hype for Roberto Bolano's masterpiece-in-waiting, 2666, but the Literary Saloon beat me to the story in my own backyard by noticing that the book has appeared on our site with a release date of November 11 (I've checked with Farrar Straus and that is indeed the right date).

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I'm always tempted to describe Bolano's style as non-narrative, but in fact it's just the opposite.

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I'll wade in with another about this month's choice, Roberto Bolano's

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But meanwhile, my actual choice turned out to be Roberto Bolano's Nazi Literature in the Americas.

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I actually haven't read 2666 yet, because I keep saving it for a grand project I've been meaning to attempt: reading Bolano's books in order.

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Roberto Bolano's The Savage Detectives is a vast, sexy, sidewinding book that turns the novel inside-out through of a sheer love of storytelling.

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Bolano's terrifying recitation of gruesome discoveries is made real in an Amnesty report on the murders of an estimated four hundred women of the city of Ciudad Juarez.

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She has pretty much the most interesting job on the planet to me right now: after translating Roberto Bolano's gigantic novel, The Savage Detectives (my favorite book from last year), she's been working away at his even more gigantic novel, 2666, which, last I heard, was due out this year, although the translation is not listed on our site yet.

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