![]() ![]() The Savage Detectives opens with a young Mexican poet named Juan García Madero, who falls in with a crew of poets called the Visceral Realists. Though it's a complete novel, and one of Bolaño's earliest, any reader familiar with The Savage Detectives will recognize it as practice for that novel's shaggy, raucous first section. In a way, The Spirit of Science Fiction, which was released posthumously in Spanish and has now been translated by Wimmer, is among Bolaño's fragments. They have worked their way through his perfect array of novellas, his short stories, and the fragments left on his hard drive, which are better than most full-fledged novels I have read. In the years since his death, his body of work has slowly emerged in English, primarily translated by Chris Andrews and Natasha Wimmer. ![]() He's a literary giant across the Americas, with a mystique centered on the two massive masterworks: 2666 and The Savage Detectives. The Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño, who died in 2003, is as influential as a dead man can get. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Spirit of Science Fiction Author Roberto Bolaño ![]()
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