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🦋 When You Care, When You Love
Un poquito sublime y un poquito siniestro. Como en todo amor loco, ¿no? Si al infinito uno añade más infinito, el resultado es infinito. Si uno junta lo sublime con lo siniestro, el resultado es siniestro. ¿No?
—Felipe Müller
October, 1991
The narratives in the latter half of part 2 of Savage Detectives are spinning farther and farther away from the core of the book (which I stubbornly continue to insist is Belano and Lima's search for Cesárea Tinajero in 1975-6) -- long narratives by minor characters which involve Belano and Lima only glancingly or only in parts. Look at Felipe Müller's narrative from October, 1991 -- Müller summarizes a short story by Theodore Sturgeon, one which he is pretty sure Belano told him, "since he was the only one of our crowd who read science fiction."The story is "When You Care, When You Love" -- it strikes me as curious and interesting that a full three pages are spent on relating this story, more adjacent space than has been devoted to any other work referenced in this book so far. Add another entry to the long list of influences for Bolaño, I guess...
posted morning of Sunday, December 4th, 2011
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It's been so long since I read The Savage Detectives, Jeremy, that this is exactly the type of thing I'm looking forward to running into and encountering again during the January group read. So many "weird" micro-narratives scattered throughout the text, many (as I recall anyway) described with such mad detail. Are you still reading this in Spanish? If so, how's it going for you?
posted morning of December 5th, 2011 by Richard
Yes, still in Spanish. It's just possible that I may have bogged down in Xosé Lendoiro's narrative, his Spanish is very difficult to read and it goes on for a long time. Thinking about skipping ahead to Daniel Grossman's next narrative, he is pretty easy to read.
posted morning of December 5th, 2011 by Jeremy
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