![]() ![]() ![]() The latter are the kind of books Ulises Lima and Belano wanted to write. And there are books for when you’re desperate. There are books for when you’re thirsty for knowledge. ![]() And there are books for when you’re happy. There are also books for when you’re sad. National Bestseller New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. And the island of the future, where the only time was the future, and the inhabitants were planners and strivers, such strivers, said Ulises, that they were likely to end up devouring one another.” The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the inhabitants were bored and more or less happy, but where the weight of illusion was so great that the island sank a little deeper into the river every day. “Of all the islands he’d visited, two stood out. As far as I was concerned, this was the latter.” “There’s a time for reciting poems and a time for fists. “Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.” “There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.” ![]() A list of my favorite quotes from The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño: ![]()
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