tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post341044981448578428..comments2024-01-02T15:37:04.858-05:00Comments on Caravana de recuerdos: Bolaño antes de Bolaño. Diario de una residencia en México (1971-1972)Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-91955353413893675002012-03-07T19:23:03.737-05:002012-03-07T19:23:03.737-05:00It's short and very personal, Stu, so I hope i...It's short and very personal, Stu, so I hope it makes it into English too. Quezada describes the teenaged Bolaño as a reclusive kid with a "verbal guillotine" (literal translation!) who would stay indoors reading all the time because he was obsessed with books but one who gradually became more interested in meeting other writers and participating in arts-related activities at poetry workshops and cafés. I'd say it's not at all a stretch to see some of the tendencies of <em>The Savage Detectives</em>' García Madero and Arturo Belano as heavily autobiographical.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-60992438424640286052012-03-07T18:54:00.402-05:002012-03-07T18:54:00.402-05:00No problem! I also saw Quezada quoted in another ...No problem! I also saw Quezada quoted in another article somewhere else saying much the same thing--apparently, Bolaño stuck out like a sore thumb both because of his dress and his Mexicanized accent (wrong time/place to stick out as a potential outside agitator when innocent people were being rounded up left and right).Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-62249811228927241512012-03-07T12:48:15.591-05:002012-03-07T12:48:15.591-05:00I hope this makes it to english some insight into ...I hope this makes it to english some insight into the man would be welcome I ve read Bolano but still feel I don't know the man ,all the best stuAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-81431315042646760902012-03-06T22:47:58.120-05:002012-03-06T22:47:58.120-05:00Thanks. That did set the record straight. As to wh...Thanks. That did set the record straight. As to what kind of trouble, at least it had been consistently told in fiction, essays, and interviews.Risehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17446964640160585194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-43464227525905008892012-03-05T23:49:09.230-05:002012-03-05T23:49:09.230-05:00I'm certain you'd enjoy this one, Rise. A...I'm certain you'd enjoy this one, Rise. As for your question, Quezada says that Bolaño--and not just Belano, heh heh--arrived in Chile in late August of 1973 by means of a long-distance bus trip from Mexico, got taken by surprise by the Pinochet coup, but was able to return to Mexico at some point thereafter thanks in part to the efforts of the Mexican embassy in Santiago. Bolaño stayed with Quezada for at least part of the time, but Quezada doesn't specify what sort of trouble Bolaño found himself in other than that it was a nervous time for both of them until Bolaño got back out.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-34612800964241908362012-03-05T23:17:25.982-05:002012-03-05T23:17:25.982-05:00Another interesting book in the horizon. Did he go...Another interesting book in the horizon. Did he go to Chile in 1973? At least I think Belano did. I guess that's enough for me.Risehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17446964640160585194noreply@blogger.com