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extemporalli 's review for:
A Little Lumpen Novelita
by Roberto Bolaño
Sex, exploitation, crime, and ambivalence converge in Bolaño's 'little lumpen novelita'. It's kind of stunning that the entire novel comes in at just over a hundred pages, given how 'heavy' the novel feels at times. I don't mean that the novel is sodden or too long, I mean that there's a kind of depressive weight to the story that Bolaño consciously employs.
I enjoyed that he gets us to the ending we get to without dramatizing it: rather than a hero's journey he gives us just a simple turn-away, a sense of crisis narrowly averted.
I enjoyed that he gets us to the ending we get to without dramatizing it: rather than a hero's journey he gives us just a simple turn-away, a sense of crisis narrowly averted.