About this title: From one of "the most admired novelists in the Spanish-speaking world" (Susan Sontag) comes this highly charged semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Directions
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780811216647ISBN:0811216640
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New Directions
Date Published: 2008-05-01
ISBN-13:9780811217460ISBN:0811217469
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780811217460ISBN:0811217469
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Directions
Date Published: 2006-11-10
ISBN-13:9780811216647ISBN:0811216640
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Directions
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780811216647ISBN:0811216640
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: PAN MACMILLAN Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780330510486ISBN:0330510487
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 192 pages. It is september 1968 and the mexican student movement is about to run head-on into the repressive right-wing government of mexico: hundreds of young people will soon die. when the army invades the university, one woman hides in a fourth-floor ladies' room and for twelve days she is the only person left on campus. (Hardback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Directions Books, New York City, NY
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780811216647ISBN:0811216640
Description: Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 184 pages. As New in As New Dust Jacket. The author's fourth book to be translated into English. Now considered a contemporary classic. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Focuses on the Uruguayan poet Auxilio Lacouture who runs across a host of Latin-American artists and writers, among them "Arturo Belano", Bolano's alter ego. "Amulet" remains in ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 04/09/2009
ISBN-13:9780330510486ISBN:0330510487
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: NEW DIRECTIONS
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780811217460ISBN:0811217469
Description: New. From one of "the most admired novelists in the Spanish-speaking world" (Susan Sontag) comes this highly charged semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America. read more
"Si pudiera resumir este libro con una frase sencilla, diría que la mayor virtud es la magnífica prosa de la que Bolaño hace alarde en esta pequeña novela. Se trata de un texto sumamente lírico que, a decir verdad, destaca más por sus cualidades narrativas que por la trama que aquí se maneja.
Aunque el tema del México 68 peca de lugar común - uno muy cursi, por cierto, y que se ha elevado más como mito de unos mártires que merecerían un mejor estudio acerca del tema y no esa verdad políticamente correcta que no permite tener una visión más abarcadora -, el tratamiento que hace Bolaño es conmovedor. Como no podía ser de otra forma, era necesario dar un paseo por la poesía. Ahí está la máxima de este escritor: la metaliteratura debe tener vísceras, entrañadas, carne."
"This book was a shining example of everything I love least about Latin American Literature. A florid, OTT, self-consciously 'poetic' style; the navel-gazings of 'The Mother of Mexican Poetry' as she sits trapped in the women's lavatories during the 1968 Tlatelolco student massacre.
There's everything you'd expect in a book of this kind: rose-tinted politics, the romanticised lauding of poets and poverty, a deal of obscure name-dropping (to show how intellectual the narrator is) and a fantastically annoying style: shall I? better not. Or will I? let me see...
I'm giving it two stars rather than one because very occasionally, the germ of a story was able to fight its way out of the miasma; two rather than three because it was always quickly drowned again in a swamp of unnecessary words."
"I read this book because I read that it was where the title for 2666 came from. He describes two character going to a part of town in Mexico City that was run by a pimp that looked like a cemetery, but not a cemetery in the present but more like a cememtery in the year 2666. The book itself is about a woman, who is the self proclaimed mother of Mexican poetry who was trapped in the bathroom of a school in Mexico City when the army took over the campus. Roberto Bolano is also a character in the book, and the school take over is based on real events. A quick read as well."
"I like Bolano more when he's not talking about and referring to poet's and writers, I guess it's his thing.
That said, what I liked about the story is the telling of how to survive (or remember?) living in a university bathroom for two weeks during a military occupation. The backdrop is the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre is Mexico, where the military occupied the university and killed several hundred student demonstrators. This story is sort of about post traumatic stress disorder.
I think I want to read Bolano's Nazi Literature in the America's next, as long as it's not all reflections on poets and writers."
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