3 Roberto Bolano Quotes on Bolano

Roberto Bolano quotes on bolano

10. Bolano's narrative style is fragmented and loaded. It is also full of a strange kind of gallows humour, as we are swept along by stories that are invented and presented entirely convincingly, only to be suddenly brought up short by a reminder that this has not been done innocently.

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...

12. By far the most inspiring talent from south of the border since the '70s. A Chilean who lived for years in Mexico and ultimately settled near Barcelona before he died in 2003 at age 50, Bolano's oeuvre is slowly making its way into English... His hypnotizing style and restless approach to plot are at once refreshing and humbling.