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3.52 AVERAGE
3.52 AVERAGE
Las descripciones de los avances del juego no convencen ni contribuyen a imbuir de sentido al desarrollo del texto. La idea es buena pero el tratamiento fallido. No así el manejo del suspenso y el ritmo de la novela que anuncian el estilo incomparable de Bolaño.
no lo hubiera terminado de leer sino fuera porque me lo prestaron.
no me molesta que un libro no tenga un plot en concreto pero, por lo menos, que sea interesante de cierta manera.
ni siquiera hubo un buen personaje, ni se le puede sacar nada a este libro
y casualmente hablando de v1ol4r o haciendo eso????
no me molesta que un libro no tenga un plot en concreto pero, por lo menos, que sea interesante de cierta manera.
ni siquiera hubo un buen personaje, ni se le puede sacar nada a este libro
y casualmente hablando de v1ol4r o haciendo eso????
Qué distinto Bolaño cuando escribe sobre Europa. Para mí, un escalón por debajo de 'Monsieur Pain', compartiendo atmósfera. Aun así, Bolaño.
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
"No lo sé. Lo que sí sé es que me voy por las ramas, me pierdo en suposiciones inútiles que sólo consiguen turbarme. No entiendo cómo mi buen amigo Conrad pudo alguna vez decir que escribo como Karl Bröger. Qué más quisiera yo."
I loved 2666 and really liked the Savage Detectives, but all of the smaller novelas and collections that have been translated from his papers have been disappointing- this on, however, does not. The Third Reich manages to do what each of the 5 sections of 2666 do, and create vivid characters and compelling plots out of individual obsessions. Great read.
challenging
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The Lamb winked at me and sat on the bed, behind the maid, miming sex in a way that was doubly silent because even his ear-to-ear smile was turned not toward me or Clarita's back but toward... a kind of realm of stone... a silent zone (with raw staring eyes) that had surreptitiously established itself in the middle of my room... say, from the bed to the wall where the photocopies were tacked.
3 Bolaño stars, which is to say I loved it.
3 Bolaño stars, which is to say I loved it.
Spooky and unsettling the whole way through. German war games champion udo visits the Costa brava (towns gotta be blanes where bolano lived) that he used to visit as a child with his girlfriend ingeborg. They meet another German couple, Hanna and drunk violent scumbag Charly. Udo also sees the hotel owners wife, frau elsa, who he had a crush on. Soon Charly and Hanna introduce them to the lamb and the wolf, two local creeps, and el quemado, a jacked badly burned guy who lives in a fortress of pedal boats he rents out. They go to shitty bars and get drunk and udos narration gives off a foreboding violent atmosphere that really genuinely weirded me out. Charly drowns while windsurfing. Eventually Hanna and ingeborg go back to Germany (separately) and udo stays behind ostensibly to id the body but really to play third Reich with el quemado, who has seemingly been receiving advice from frau Elsa's husband, the hotel owner, who is sick and mostly confined to bed. Udo visits him (after starting a relatively chaste affair with Elsa) where he warns udo that after el quemado wins, he'll probably kill udo. The real scene after the end of the game is confused and dreamlike and maybe the highpoint of UFOs growing madness . Thematically way far up bolano alley. He's obsessed with evil and with borders and apparently in real life with board games which is funny to imagine. In his other books the obsession with obscure writers is just replaced by him being a huge board game nerd. His characters always have weird gestures and seem to have more knowledge than they should but less than is sometimes implied. They all know something the trader and the narrotor don't but they won't always say exactly what it is and they might be wrong about it ultimately. Every scene with Charly or the wolf and the lamb I was struck by how creepy he makes the ugly darkness in your average regular jamokes. A lot of his books set up these poles where he demonstrates the things he thinks are important (writing, games, I'm thinking of mesmerism and spirituality in monsieur pain) aren't inherently "good". If they're powerful for good they can be powerful for evil too.