134 reviews for:

تعویذ

Roberto Bolaño

3.79 AVERAGE

jaredjoseph's review against another edition

Tal vez fue la locura la que me impulsó a viajar. Puede que fuera la locura. Yo decía que había sido la cultura. Claro que la cultura a veces es la locura, o comprende la locura. Tal vez fue el desamor el que me impulsó a viajar. Tal vez fue un amor excesivo y desbordante. Tal vez fue la locura.

hearingtrumpet's review against another edition

4.0

I am still not quite sure what this book was about, but I liked it nevertheless. A lot of the ideas and characters that later reappear and are developed further in the Savage Detectives and 2666 ( the number even comes up once in the) come up in this early novel. And early it may be, it is still unmistakably Bolaño. The violence, the madness and the beauty that lurks beneath.

libros_caoticos's review against another edition

3.0

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lee_foust's review against another edition

5.0

This is another lovely, unique, and moving novel by Bolano. It acts as a companion piece, in a way, to The Savage Detectives--much as Distant Star takes up a character from Nazi Literature in the Americas and expands their story into a full short novel. Since The Savage Detectives is one of my favorite novels, of course I loved this one as well, with its vivid depiction of the literary and artistic avant-garde of Mexico and South America of the generation just previous to my own. I love the universality of the experiences of the last century's Bohemians, from Murger's famous sketches of those garret-dwelling Parisian artists of the 1880s to Rent's updating of the Opera inspired by Murger's book for New York City in the 1990s, the Futurist, Dada, surrealist, Beatnik, and punk undergrounds have all persisted in creating an alternative tradition of art, poverty, subversion, and often travel and escape in a brotherhood of resistance and exploration. Without Bolano's work I never would have known about the South and Central American version of Bohemia in the 1960s and '70s. This novel, even more pointedly than Detectives conveys the portrait and meaning of the avant-garde, but it's all the better if you've already read that long catalogue of Bohemian experience and artistic struggle against political and capitalist repression, which would do away with art and poetry if it could.

irinamanzana's review against another edition

4.0

a mi también me gustaría saber como cogía el che guevara

radio_ghost_'s review against another edition

emotional inspiring mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

ashley_nbc's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

El personaje principal está muy bien escrito pero siento que falta algo en la historia para hacerlo más impactante.

seida's review against another edition

slow-paced

2.25

clementine_lips's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Complicated

3.75

idesthai's review against another edition

5.0

Esta lectura fue una recomendación y la verdad es que hacía mucho, mucho tiempo que no me recomendaban un libro que fuera tan de mi rollo. Estoy conmovida, la verdad, porque me siento, de pronto, tremendamente comprendida. Si he tardado una semana en completar la lectura ha sido porque me he ido parando a investigar sucesos de la historia de México que hasta ahora me eran desconocidos, pero la voz de Auxilio, nuestra narradora, es tan deliciosa que podría haber devorado el librito en una tarde de no haber sentido la necesidad personal de hacer una pequeña investigación paralela. Es más, el final me ha dejado desolada porque habría querido que Auxilio siguiera hablándome para siempre desde su baluarte en el lavabo de mujeres de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. El baile de la luna sobre las baldosas es un mantra que no voy a olvidar fácilmente.