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Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:49:54 +0000

[...] passel of images of Roberto Bolaño documents at Las obras de Roberto Bolaño by Maria Serrano, who attended BOLAÑO ARCHIVE. 1977-2003, an exhibition of Bolaño’s [...]

Comment on Contact by Ivan Gutierrez

Ivan Gutierrez — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:33:30 +0000

Great! Looking forward to discussing it.
Ivan

Comment on Week 4: Clueless by Hugo

Hugo — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 06:43:39 +0000

I’m not sure why I was never tempted by this one. I saw the book list but since I don’t only read in English I wasn’t aware that the books were hard to find in English. I’m ssreriupd it was translated in that case.I think the length put me off as it didn’t sound as there was all that much of a plot.I do prefer non-fiction about books or something like The Jane Austen Book Club, entertaining but still about books. Good taste is something I find suspicious and it sounds as if this is the concept this book is based on. Sounds like rules and regulations.

Comment on Contact by Matt

Matt — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:01:23 +0000

Hi Ivan, I’m reading the book, too. I plan to post about it soon so keep an eye out!

Comment on Contact by Ivan Gutierrez

Ivan Gutierrez — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 06:28:40 +0000

Hi,
I am currently reading Los Sinsabores del Verdadero Policia. Anybody out there reading it? If yes, what do you think of it? Looking to start a dialogue…

Ivan

Comment on Week 2: Locations by XC

XC — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:43:06 +0000

Actually if anyone has any answers to the above please mail me:
chris56a@yahoo.co.uk

Comment on Week 2: Locations by XC

XC — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 23:51:58 +0000

“Saint George’s Road, London – Pelletier and Espinoza beat a Pakistani cab driver while Norton looks on. (p. 74)”

This scene takes place after the cab has circled (Geraldine Mary) Harmsworth Park and the Imperial War Museum, up Brook Drive, Austral and Geraldine St to St George’s Rd. This route in 1997 would take all the participants on a circular route past The Obelisk that was then situated on St George’s Rd in the grounds of the War Museum. A year later the Obelisk was moved back to it’s original site at St George’s Circus not far away. Given the later murders near El Obelisco, I wonder why this episode takes place here in a part of South London which has no other mention in the plot before they get in the cab inexplicably near Brook Drive?

Also a local would know that the taxi route is impossible because you can’t go up Geraldine St to St George’s Rd as it’s a one way street in the opposite direction!

Did Bolano come to London? Would he have know this area?

Comment on The Third Reich: Udo the German by Matt Bucher » Blog Archive » Update

Matt Bucher » Blog Archive » Update — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:06:44 +0000

[...] On my Roberto Bolaño site, I wrote an essay about his novel The Third Reich. [...]

Comment on The Third Reich: Udo the German by Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:34:40 +0000

I haven’t read the book (just a few reviews!) but there’s also another fine candidate, being one of the classics of the genre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_and_Decline_of_the_Third_Reich

Colloquially known as “Third Reich”, I seem to recall.

Comment on Contact by Dinesh Allirajah

Dinesh Allirajah — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 10:40:25 +0000

Hi – thought you might like a read of this blog post, specifically about the short story “A Literary Adventure” but about Bolaño in general:
http://realtimeshortstories.wordpress.com/2012/06/10/real-time-reads-a-literary-adventure-by-roberto-bolano/