there hasn't been a bolano thread in awhile, what's

I'm reading 2666 right now, and quite enjoying it. I'll probably look at By Night in Chile next, though if people have other recommendations, I'd love to hear them.

>novels by and for art school cranks
no thanksss

>>9619287
I'm always kinda baffled how he also LOOKED like El Chavo

>>9619340
The Savage Detectives of course. Nazi Literature in the Americas/ Distant star are also great. His short stories are excellent, especially his first collection.

>>9620280
But is fun to read how dumb those cranks are
Thats kinda the point of savage detectives

I recently bought a posthumous work of his. It'll be the next one, for some reason I like to read the earlier and not as great books before I go into the better ones.

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t. bolano pro

>>9619340
BNIC is gorgeous. Nearly did my thesis on it. Read it at a really good time when I was thinking through Neruda and had just taken a class on the Reformation. One of the few short books that has that much aesthetic vitality.

>>9622246
same fag here. I have always felt guilty about how quickly I read through his stuff. Highly recommend really taking your time through this or any of his short stories. He is a veritable mine of treasures on a sentence by sentence level.

bolano power ranking:

2666
by night in chile
Savage detectives
antwerp
distant star
amulet
last evenings on earth
return
insufferable gaucho
woes of true policeman
nazi literature of the americas
monsieur pain
the skating rink
secret of evil
a lumpen novelita*
third reich*

*havent read