[np] Bolano

[Michael Richard]

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, rich wrote:

> i've sung its praises many times but if we're talking Latin American
> lit, one can't find a better novel than Fuentes' Terra Nostra--not
> really thrilled by any of his work in the last 20 yrs but I was pretty
> amazed by the wonderful strangeness of that book
> 
> that's a book I have to read again
> rich


	I know I said I'd shut up, but I have to agree: TN is tremendous.
and (googles...) The Death of Artemio Cruz is stunning, the only book I 
have ever put down because it was too disturbing. 
	TN is more of the Great Spanish Empire Novel than the Great
Mexican Novel.  TDoAC is a history of Mexico as lived by a fellow who
kept switching sides at the last moment.