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🦋 Who's who? -- the Visceral Realists

I'm wondering how many of the characters in The Savage Detectives are real people from BolaÃ±o's cohort in D.F. in the mid-70's. According to infrarrealismo.com, Ulises Lima is based on Mexican poet Mario Santiago Papasquiaro*; clearly Arturo Belano is BolaÃ±o himself. I am assuming GarcÃa Madero is made-up, and that the Font family must be based at least loosely on real people. The rest of the Visceral Realists must be a mix of real poets and inventions...

* Oops, and Papasquiaro is itself a pen name, just as Ulises Lima is; the poet's actual name is JosÃ© Alfredo Zendejas Pineda -- that Wiki page also lists a number of other poets who are presumably represented in The Savage Detectives.

posted morning of Sunday, December 20th, 2009
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