Quote #11

Bolano has a laser eye and a frank, confessional first-person voice as relentless as it is irresistible. His 'infra-realism' sears through the book's world-weary characters.... Just behind the nervy, deadpan narrative a total breakdown perpetually looms... Bolano's writing... is an incantation - against horror, against defeat, against oblivion...

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