just finished the part about the critics. I feel like I'm

>>9871902
critics part is the second weakest part, so it gets much better.

>>9871902
I feel like the critics part is the second best part, next to the part about archimboldi, but maybe I am a pleb

>>9871946
archimboldi > crimes > amalfintano > critics > fate

>>9871902
Do you like forensics? Descriptions of rape, sodomy, and young women tortured and killed, and where and how their bodies were found, like a catalogue, to the point that it becomes mundane and repetitive and you are completely inured to the sexual violence? That's how good it gets.

>>9871902
Are you reading a translation or native? I couldn't continue this after around 50 pages. If I remember there was like a 5 page run-on in between their that I lost myself in.

archimboldi > crimes > critics > garbage > amalfintano > shit > fate

>>9871902
It gets much better. Amalfitano's part will make you feel like you're floating even more, and that's not even the best part of the book.
>>9871907
What's the weakest part in your opinion? Fate's?

this guy's translated prose is some of the worst prose I've ever read.

>>9873700
In spanish is pretty good

OP it gets much better, really

>>9871967
I can agree with that.

>>9873700
>>9873700
This. But it could just be Wimmer. She barely knows Spanish.

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>>9871902
You're going to dislike the Part About Amalfitano, but The Part About Fate is amazing. Crimes is something else entirely.

>>9871902
It gets incredibly better.

You're in for a ride, OP.

Kinda wish I could read this again for the first time. It's probably my favorite book.

>>9873679
yeah, fate's definitely. he was trying to tie together too many themes and so it read really fractured with no real stylistic reason to be so.

>>9875088
I also think that it probably would have worked as a stand-alone book, which I think it was intended to be but when edited into a whole loosely knit book like the end product is probably the reason for it not working.

>>9873700
>>9873712

I'm currently learning Spanish and French right now.

Should I read this book in when I am completely fluent in Spanish? Or should I read the translation then Spanish afterwards

>>9875081
Me too bud, been about three years since I read it and still think about it.

>>9871967
This

>>9875088
>>9875097
I think if Bolano would've been able to finish it and edit it properly, he would've had some sort of resolution for Fate and the other journalist he met.

>>9873472
more than repetitive: retarded. or industrial.

>>9875106
Read it once you have a good grasp of Spanish. Bolaño's prose is great.