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Roberto Bolaño
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008, English,
Hardcover, 912 pages
reviewed by edmundo Paz Soldán
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Five years after Chilean writer
Roberto Bolaño’s death in 2003,
at the age of 50, critics, writers
and readers agree that he is
the most important author to have
emerged in Latin America since the
golden age of the 1960s, when Gabriel
García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa,
Carlos Fuentes, and Julio Cortázar
took the world by storm.
Bolaño is a primary influence for
the new generation of French, Russian and American writers as well.
Symptomatic of Bolaño’s quick canonization is the fact that The Savage
Detectives is one of the only Latin
American novels cited by James
