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The Part About the Crimes is really synthesizing, for me, a lot of the themes and ideas put forth in the previous portions of the novel. Madness as a contagion, modernity and industrialism as both a blessing and a blight (more the latter, especially with the benefit of hindsight and the privilege of not having, as Bolaño puts it, “less than nothing” and therefore having to work in a maquiladora. And the total
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The end of part four blew me away. It all comes together in the story the congresswoman tells to Gonzalez. It’s not one killer, but many. The black Pereginos are a symbol. The women are expendable. The circumstances, some frequent, some strange, some inexplicable, some singular, point to one big group: the rich and powerful. But then again, who knows, the killings likely aren’t confined to them.
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lack of attention paid to the burgeoning femicide, which is part and parcel of and inseparable from the aforementioned themes, as is the idea that the sensational takes precedence over the tragic, until at a certain point the latter morphs into the former after exhausting itself over and over again.
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