![]() ![]() ![]() Remo’s involvement in the city’s literary scene exposes the reader to a number of digressive stories (one particularly memorable aside features Georges Perec unwittingly defusing a duel between poets Isidore Isou and André Vernier in Paris). ![]() Jan’s solitude is contrasted by Remo’s social jaunts around the city: he joins a poetry workshop, falls in love with a young woman named Laura, and rides a motorcycle. Jan spends his days holed up in the apartment, reading books and penning letters to sci-fi authors he admires, such as Ursula K. Aspiring writers Jan and Remo get an apartment together. This striking, meandering novel from Bolaño ( 2666), written toward the beginning of his career, follows the coming-of-age of two young writers in Mexico City. ![]()
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