tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post8461410909926494464..comments2024-01-02T15:37:04.858-05:00Comments on Caravana de recuerdos: Putas asesinasRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-29617490411119696752013-01-13T23:53:39.941-05:002013-01-13T23:53:39.941-05:00Tom, that'd make a fine choice if you don'...Tom, that'd make a fine choice if you don't have time to tackle <em>2666</em> just yet (I'm actually mulling over a reread of that one for later in the year as a potential two-month long group read thing, so please let me know if you're at all interested in reading along with me). Here's the <em>Putas asesinas</em> setlist if you want to read it in the order Bolaño intended and not the idiotic way ND broke it up and published it: "El Ojo Silva" ["Mauricio ('The Eye') Silva"]; "Gómez Palacio" ["Gómez Palacio"]; "Últimos atardeceres en la tierra" ["Last Evenings on Earth"]; "Días de 1978" ["Days of 1978"]; "Vagabundo en Francia y Bélgica" ["Vagabond in France and Belgium"]; "Prefiguración de Lalo Cura" ["Prefiguration of Lalo Cura"]; "Putas asesinas" ["Murdering Whores"]; "El retorno" ["The Return"]; "Buba" ["Buba"]; "Dentista" ["Dentist"]; "Fotos" ["Photos"]; "Carnet de baile" ["Dance Card"]; "Encuentro con Enrique Lihn" ["Meeting with Enrique Lihn"].Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-88012394093213845832013-01-13T23:08:05.580-05:002013-01-13T23:08:05.580-05:00All right, whenever I read Bolaño again, this is w...All right, whenever I read Bolaño again, this is what I'll read. I know, the story have been rearranged in English; I'll figure it out.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-3272850721339109862013-01-13T11:35:25.469-05:002013-01-13T11:35:25.469-05:00Jill, Prefiguración de Lalo Cura is only one of my...Jill, <em>Prefiguración de Lalo Cura</em> is only one of my faves and that scene you refer to isn't what drives my affection for it so to speak. However, I do understand that there's no such thing as bad publicity! What I like about the <em>Lalo Cura</em> (<em>la locura</em> = madness) story, though, is that it not only "anticipates" one of my favorite characters from <em>2666</em> but how recklessly it swings from "wrong humor" to menace to sadness while somehow maintaining the voice of the narrator character throughout. Fascinating and, yes, "outrageously funny" to this "verbal Hieronymus Bosch" fancier. Anyway, thanks for your entertainingly perverse comment!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-9435378148724467922013-01-13T07:04:54.239-05:002013-01-13T07:04:54.239-05:00I have read the Lalo Curo story. Good God, Bolano...I have read the Lalo Curo story. Good God, Bolano is like a verbal Hieronymus Bosch. I suppose one could find it outrageously funny, if, for example, one were you. But just when I want to think him amusing, he goes too far and gets me depressed. ... to be alive, or something. However, since the Lalo Curo Prefiguration is your fave, now I get to associate you in my mind with rows of enema tubes, rather than just, for example, straight-up violence! Entertaining, if perverse, review, as usual! :--) rhapsodyinbookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07041412748239010264noreply@blogger.com