Status Updates From 2666

cosa si puo dire riguardo alla parte dei critici? è potentissima. è costruita, strutturata magistralmente. 180 pagine permeate da una densità narrativa mai pomposa, mai scocciante, ma anzi condita da personaggi precisamente congeniali al tipo di storia che Bolaño ha voluto raccontare in questa prima parte. l'ho adorata con tutto me stesso. tutta la parte è davvero accattivante....ma le ultime 20 pagine...mamma mia

Halfway update

I cannot handle Espinoza’s obsession with Norton.
Stop being such a bitch.

Will come back to this later the language is difficult and it reads like a novela (not really it’s just in espanol)

4: The Part About the Crimes can be hard to read. Violent and misogynistic, of course, but even beyond the countless, horrific rapes and murders. Page 401 incited an interesting revelation for me. An officer had referred to there being a "party" in the cells, and I was inclined to think this included the mass of people brought in from the club.

so excited!! 😽

‘Healthy people flee contact with the diseased. He feared neither the healthy nor the diseased. The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can manage only a murmur, carry more weight. Then, too, all healthy people will in the future know disease. That sense of time, ah, the diseased man’s sense of time—the diseased truly bite, whereas the healthy pretend—’