Savage Detectives

[Ya Sam]

Thanks. Sounds cool.

"New Year’s Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the 
visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white 
Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesárea 
Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; 
twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run.

The explosive first long work by “the most exciting writer to come from 
south of the Rio Grande in a long time” (Ilan Stavans, Los Angeles Times), 
The Savage Detectives follows Belano and Lima through the eyes of the people 
whose paths they cross in Central America, Europe, Israel, and West Africa. 
This chorus includes the muses of visceral realism, the beautiful Font 
sisters; their father, an architect interned in a Mexico City asylum; a 
sensitive young follower of Octavio Paz; a foul-mouthed American graduate 
student; a French girl with a taste for the Marquis de Sade; the 
great-granddaughter of Leon Trotsky; a Chilean stowaway with a mystical gift 
for numbers; the anorexic heiress to a Mexican underwear empire; an 
Argentinian photojournalist in Angola; and assorted hangers-on, detractors, 
critics, lovers, employers, vagabonds, real-life literary figures, and 
random acquaintances.

A polymathic descendant of Borges and Pynchon, Roberto Bolaño traces the 
hidden connection between literature and violence in a world where national 
boundaries are fluid and death lurks in the shadow of the avant-garde. The 
Savage Detectives is a dazzling original, the first great Latin American 
novel of the twenty-first century."





>From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Savage Detectives
>Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 23:48:04 -0600
>
>http://www.fsgbooks.com/searchnn.htm
>
>apr 2007--finally, the english translation
>
>rich

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