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...Savage Detectives?? gives us hope for this dream, then “2666,” Bolaño’s posthumously-published final novel, released in 2004 in his native Spanish and translated into English last year, is the violent and inevitable calamity that finally shakes us all awake. Written as he slowly succumbed to a failing liver before his death in 2003, “2666” is a work of sheer enigma, the cryptic suturing of staggering indifference and nonrelational pain. Bolaño manages to etch the host of themes that characterize...
...various cases of kidnapping and murder that took place in and around Santa Teresa between 1993 and 1997. The narrative, based on the actual unsolved murders in Juárez known as the feminicidos that continue to this day, mirrors the structure of “The Savage Detectives?? in their ephemeral disinterest. Detectives, bodyguards, politicians, and prophets float to the surface and sink back again into an ocean of brutality, where a phantom mental patient desecrates churches and young girls are swallowed whole by unmarked cars in the Mexican night. With its medically precise descriptions...
...courses offered this past fall term, Quantitative Reasoning 50: “Medical Detectives?? and Science B-60: “Origins of Knowledge,” will fulfill the “Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning” and “Science of Living Systems” requirements, respectively...
...submitted a resolution in 2001 promising all city employees full pay during wartime deployment. Decker, who co-sponsored the measure with Galluccio and Toomey, said she only discovered “inconsistencies in how [the 2001 resolution] has been applied” several weeks ago. Following the detectives?? comments, the council unanimously approved the measure ordering the Office of the City Manager to “provide full salary and benefits...in addition to their military combat pay, to all city employees who are now actively serving in Iraq or being deployed to Iraq.” City...
...thought: because I wrote, I stood my ground...I thought: the two acts are related, writing and destruction, hiding and being found. Then I sat on the toilet and closed my eyes. Then I fell asleep. Then I woke up.” But “The Savage Detectives?? is much more than a novel about poets. Bolaño is an extraordinarily generous writer, and he allows each character to tell his own story in his own voice. (When reading certain blowhard characters, it must be said, one can’t help but wish that...