The larger movements of Bolano's prose tell the same story. One of the most consistent and striking features of his writing is its mixture of a frank, gritty, ironic realism with baroque and enigmatic passages of hallucination, vision, allegory, and dream. Time and space crack and warp; probability pitches like a ship in a storm. The fabric of everyday reality, everyday sanity, suddenly tears, disclosing mad and terrifying truths that we--and one senses, even Bolano--can only dimly glimpse.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
TNR on Bolano
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