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title: "The Savage Detectives"
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# The Savage Detectives

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## Customer Reviews

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    Bolaño's Savage Young Latino Poets
  

*by J***S on Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2019*

The savages in ‘The Savage Detectives’ by Roberto Bolaño are young Latino poets living in the huge metropolis of Mexico City in the mid-1970’s who form a rebellion against the older, established poets that oppose their radical ideas (and their radically uninhibited lifestyles), reminiscent of the underground literary scenes of Henry Miller’s Paris in the 1930’s or New York’s Greenwich Village in the 1960’s. These passionate young intellectuals are ex-university students (or even non-university, self-taught teens and twenty-somethings) who loosely form a social-political alliance of young writers with a general goal of upending the rigid strictures of accepted standards for poetry, most perfectly exemplified by the doctrines of the venerable Octavio Paz, but also turning upside down the frowning priggishness of their sexually repressed traditional Catholic culture. The immediate result is sharp intellectual conflict mingled with intense sexual cross-pollination. But Bolaño doesn’t focus on the writings of these young radical intellectuals; instead, he weaves a complex fabric in space-time in which each character, each event, each encounter, is specifically located in the physical geometry of Mexico City’s various colonias at a particular point in time and place. His young anti-heroes live in a world of ideas and words. It’s the vitality of youth and intelligence at the height of their sexual powers. It’s the end of the old guard, and the reign of a new order.The four European academicians in the monumental ‘2666’ (published after Bolaño’s death in Spanish in 2004 and translated into English by Natasha Wimmer in 2008) lack the wide-open intellectuality and intense sexuality of the young Mexico City poets, but they persist in their life’s goal of finding their newly-discovered literary genius ‘Archimboldi’ even as he moves from Europe to Mexico City and then (supposedly) on to the border city of Santa Teresa (Juarez), which is embroiled in drug cartel violence and corruption. The first three parts of '2666' primarily describe the journey (both intellectually and physically) of three of the four academic cohorts as they follow the leads they uncover regarding Archimboldi's movements from locations in Europe and eventually on to Mexico City. The book is 900 pages, and the 300-page middle section ('Part 4 - The Part About the Crimes') takes place primarily in Santa Teresa (Juarez). Bolaño’s tone is calmly descriptive, but deceptively so, since his Santa Teresa is a war zone, and the city’s lawlessness has brought an array of sexual sociopaths and homicidal maniacs into the open air where they freely perpetrate their atrocities on the city’s inhabitants. It’s a dystopia right at our very doorstep, and a prescient vision of the violent perversions that await in a land ruled only by powerful cartels. It’s a contemporary ‘Blood Meridian,’ a similarly unblinking masterpiece of multi-centered social observation and insight. (Bolaño’s ‘2666’ was written 15 years before Benecio del Toro’s brutal film ‘Sicario’ (2015), which also was set in Juarez.) The entire book is lucid, but read Part 4 - The Part About the Crimes of ‘2666’ at your own hazard.

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    receiving it quickly
  

*by C***S on Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2019*

It's a book, to read.

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    Feelings on Savage Detectives
  

*by N***N on Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2013*

Brilliantly written, but not very enjoyable for those of us who would like to follow a plot. But that is the trend in modern literature, especially in Latin America.

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