El Espíritu de la Ciencia-Ficcion / The Spirit of Science Fiction, (Paperback)

from greeniezona

Bolaño had been an author on my radar for ages as someone I should read. There just hadn't been anything to make me pick up any one of his books in particular until I saw this on the new shelf at the library. Obviously I picked it up for the science fiction reference. This is a strange and wander...

from P1g5purt

All Bolano is here but, perhaps, in not quite such luminous fashion. Yes, it's not 2666, The Savage Detectives or By Night In Chile but that's a bit like saying Macbeth isn't as good as Hamlet.

from browner56

It is the mid-1980s and two young men, Jan and Remo, have recently emigrated from Chile to Mexico City to pursue their dreams of becoming famous writers. Broke and living in a sparsely furnished attic apartment, they become inflamed with their twin obsessions of poetry and science fiction, consum...

from boredgames

Uneven but still very good, the hallucinogenic bath scenes at the end tie it all together nicely.