tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post4070573126890835402..comments2024-03-02T02:26:00.928-05:00Comments on bleakonomy: 2666: the end of the Part About the Crimestetracontadigonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04604381739383227553noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-37602146974335001002010-04-07T17:35:24.943-04:002010-04-07T17:35:24.943-04:00Sorry--end of a long day: my point, of course, bei...Sorry--end of a long day: my point, of course, being that both Bolano's detractors and defenders seem to agree that he's no DFW, not that DFW fans wouldn't also like Joyce, Pynchon and Delillo.David Winnhttp://www.ablogabout2666.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-2786864543121391612010-04-07T16:56:07.038-04:002010-04-07T16:56:07.038-04:00Well, this should make for some interesting conclu...Well, this should make for some interesting concluding essays, and I look forward to disagreeing with you guys. Regarding Bolano and David Foster Wallace, I just today remembered that the final paragraph of my Goodreads review of Savage Detectives contained this sentence: “This is not a novel for people who believe that modern fiction took a wrong turn at James Joyce and has been on a highway to hell ever since, with Pynchon, Delillo and David Foster Wallace key signposts along the way.” Maybe I should find someone to replace DFW as the third example in that sentence.David Winnhttp://www.ablogabout2666.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-72355114589577383212010-04-07T16:16:08.161-04:002010-04-07T16:16:08.161-04:00Still with you, Dan. And although, like you, I'...Still with you, Dan. And although, like you, I'm straining to suspend my final judgment for another 200 pages, right now it seems to me I've never read a book and disagreed so strongly with all the praise it had earned.Jeff Andersonhttp://andersoncreativeonline.com/jmblognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-29466569270375752732010-04-07T15:18:01.965-04:002010-04-07T15:18:01.965-04:00Dan: clearly you and I disagree about the underlyi...Dan: clearly you and I disagree about the underlying aims and ultimate worth of this novel, but I have to admit that the Klaus Hass breaking into song passage had me rolling my eyes as well, and thinking: dude needs an editor.David Winnhttp://www.ablogabout2666.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-60707383395991980982010-04-06T16:05:47.391-04:002010-04-06T16:05:47.391-04:00I have only one passage noted in The Part About th...I have only one passage noted in The Part About the Crimes that approaches the lyricism with which we were inundated in Amalfitano:<br />"Despondent, she went back to her house, to the other neighbor woman and the girls, and for awhile the four of them experienced what it was like to be in purgatory, a long helpless wait, a wait that begins and ends in neglect, a very Latin American experience, as it happened, and all too familiar, something that once you thought about it you realized you experienced daily, minus the despair, minus the shadow of death sweeping over the neighborhood like a flock of vultures and casting its pall, upsetting all routines, leaving everything overturned" (528).<br /><br />The violence of this section, the social disregard for the violence in this section,and the unspoken violence inherent in the lives of this section all paint a pretty political picture of border trade and disposable lives in border-town factory production. <br /><br />And I really hope Archimboldi holds something quite different.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-11873751753836190712010-04-05T17:02:38.253-04:002010-04-05T17:02:38.253-04:00Hey, I was... oh, look, a squirrel!Hey, I was... oh, look, a squirrel!Gadfly John the Art Criticnoreply@blogger.com