In the Sonora
Benjamin Kunkel: Roberto Bolaño, 6 September 2007
The Savage Detectives
by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer.
Picador, 577 pp., £16.99, July 2007,978 0 330 44514 6 Show More
by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer.
Picador, 577 pp., £16.99, July 2007,
Last Evenings on Earth
by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Chris Andrews.
Harvill, 277 pp., £15.99, April 2007,978 1 84343 181 7 Show More
by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Chris Andrews.
Harvill, 277 pp., £15.99, April 2007,
Amulet
by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Chris Andrews.
New Directions, 184 pp., $21.95, January 2007,978 0 8112 1664 7 Show More
by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Chris Andrews.
New Directions, 184 pp., $21.95, January 2007,
“... But in The Savage Detectives he doesn’t overdo the local colour, which his superb translator Natasha Wimmer in any case wisely ignores. The narrators are individuated above all through our sense of the helpless particularity of their fates; and to the extent that they sound alike, this is explained and excused by their common situation (testifying ... ”