Long article by Michael Saler in the Times Online today.
Roberto Bolaño once said that he would rather have been a detective than a writer – not a humdrum gumshoe but an avenging angel, dosage “someone able to return alone, sale at night, to the scene of the crime, and not be afraid of ghostsâ€. Like Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, he was a disillusioned romantic with a passion for exposing evil and fortifying hope.
Not the greatest copyediting or proofreading, but hey, times are tight, right?
