“The dark, frigid sky was like a symbol of his soul. An impalpable drizzle was falling, driven before that wind from the southeast that (Bruno used to say) makes a person who lives in Buenos Aires even more melancholy, so that he looks out at the street through the rain-blurred windows and murmurs what shitty [...]
Entries from July 2007
July 3, 2007
The Savage Detectives
Francisco Goldman on Bolaño’s infrarrealista manifesto in the New York Review of Books:
“Rather than prescribing any particular aesthetic principles or commitments, it urges infrarrealistas to leave their narrow bookish circles, to see the world, and find their rebel poetry in their own uncompromising lives.”
That is a seductive slice of manifesto to read right now, [...]
