![]() But there was an earlier novel, published posthumously and only recently translated by the inimitable Natasha Wimmer, which also makes use of this turbulent time. It is here that Roberto Bolaño opens and closes what is frequently cited as his greatest novel, The Savage Detectives. In literary terms, the setting is ripe for eccentric characters, crossed paths, and high drama. ![]() Elsewhere, the US-backed Operation Condor was turning South America upside down in a hunt for leftists, intellectuals, freethinkers-anyone who was sympathetic to socialism-further seeding the bed of Mexico City’s artistic flourishing. Mexico City, late 1970s: the epicenter of the Hispanic literary renaissance, the 1920s Paris of the western hemisphere, the Harlem of Latin America. ![]()
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