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Last Evenings on Earth

Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño

March 10, 2022 by Halbs Leave a Comment

“We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.” Last Evenings on Earth is a dreamlike collection of 14 short stories by Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño. I write “middling” with affection; many of the stories in this collection are semi-autobiographical in spirit if not fact and the author focuses on what it’s like to be a writer of low notoriety. Many of the stories include petty jealousies and insecurities amongst artists in social […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: Roberto Bolano

Halbs's CBR14 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: Roberto Bolano ·
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I believe that health is wholeness.

Another Turn of the Crank by Wendell Berry

The Trolley by Claude Simon

Nights at the Alexandra by William Trevor

The Red Collar by Jean-Christophe Rufin

The Secret of Evil by Roberto Bolano

Across by Peter Handke

The Meeting at Telgte by Gunter Grass

July 18, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This, and a subsequent post will collect together a bunch of small books of no particular connection together. In some case I tend to find connections among various texts I end up reading at the same time. This is a product/habit from college and grad school where I would be taking multiple classes at the same time and looked to streamline my research and explore different ways to use the same critical texts in multiple ways. But mostly I am trying to clear off shelf-space […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: across, another turn of the crank, claude simon, gunter grass, jean-christophe rufin, nights at the alexandra, peter handke, Roberto Bolano, the meeting at telgte, the red collar, the secret of evil, the trolley, Wendell Berry, william trevor

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:420 · Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: across, another turn of the crank, claude simon, gunter grass, jean-christophe rufin, nights at the alexandra, peter handke, Roberto Bolano, the meeting at telgte, the red collar, the secret of evil, the trolley, Wendell Berry, william trevor ·
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What the fuck did I just read?

May 6, 2016 by expandingbookshelf Leave a Comment

Seriously though…what the fuck did I just read??? That’s not rhetorical, that’s not me being cute, and that’s not a set up to explain to you lovely readers what the fuck I did just read. It’s just the first thought that sprang into my head after closing Alvaro Enrigue’s gloriously weird Sudden Death. Reading this book reminded me of the first time I read Roberto Bolano’s masterpiece 2666 (and in fact the same translator worked on both books. That can’t be a coincidence). They’re both […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 2666, Álvaro Enrigue, Fiction, history, mexico, Philosophy, Roberto Bolano, Sudden Death

expandingbookshelf's CBR8 Review No:59 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 2666, Álvaro Enrigue, Fiction, history, mexico, Philosophy, Roberto Bolano, Sudden Death ·
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