tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post3701543889468734738..comments2024-01-02T15:37:04.858-05:00Comments on Caravana de recuerdos: Plata y plomoRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-39245758384295200512021-08-26T23:32:46.994-04:002021-08-26T23:32:46.994-04:00Los (tristemente) famosos casos de asesinatos en M...Los (tristemente) famosos casos de asesinatos en Monterrey, Nuevo Leòn, Mèxico:<br /><br />https://alexanderstrauffon.blogspot.com/2008/08/asesinatos-mas-famosos-y-recordados-en-Monterrey-Nuevo-Leon.htmlAlexander Strauffonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04559413872518055864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-58839489949050023512015-07-06T12:42:55.800-04:002015-07-06T12:42:55.800-04:00Scott, I think you're probably on the right tr...Scott, I think you're probably on the right track with that esp. since it's well known that Sergio Gónzalez Rodríguez wasn't Bolaño's only Mexican source among journalists covering such crimes in Ciudad Juárfez and elsewhere. Blancornelas' piece might actually pre-date its 2004 publication in this anthology as well, but whatever the exact time it was written, the stylistic similarities between his writing here and parts of Bolaño's in <em>2666</em> and parts of SGR's in <em>Huesos en el desierto</em> is self-evident and striking. Powerful stuff!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-52274392268461885522015-07-05T21:50:58.816-04:002015-07-05T21:50:58.816-04:00A journalist covering the borderland narco-killing...A journalist covering the borderland narco-killings and publishing around the same time Bolaño was writing about them? Surely the "ring reporter" connection with <i>2666</i> is not accidental. seraillonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654593356535433945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-91001069922668702652015-07-04T15:02:52.255-04:002015-07-04T15:02:52.255-04:00Thanks, Brian. I think Blancornelas' piece is...Thanks, Brian. I think Blancornelas' piece is extraordinarily well written, one proof of which is that I've read it four or five times over the last year with great interest despite the horrors that it depicts head-on. In general, I agree with you that it's important to confront human brutality through reading and writing even though I understand the temptation to view reading as an essentially escapist activity.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-77164591008109867602015-07-04T11:05:04.904-04:002015-07-04T11:05:04.904-04:00Great post Richard.
Intense is that right word fo...Great post Richard.<br /><br />Intense is that right word for the passage that you initially quote. Human brutality is so often difficult to read about but I think that it is so important that we do so.<br /><br />The descriptions of the anxiety resulting from being targeted by these people also are also gripping and well written.<br /><br />This seems to be well worth reading.Brian Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15139559400312336791noreply@blogger.com