![]() ![]() ![]() This section ends abruptly with the poets, in the company of a whore fleeing her pimp, commandeering a car and heading for the desert. The first part of the novel is told in diary form by one of their young disciples - a puzzling figure not remembered by others in the movement - who interrupts observations on Belano and Lima to recount his early sexual encounters. The latter begins in the 1970s in Mexico City, where two poets - Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima - are leading a literary movement called visceral realism. The poet's troubled odyssey is the dominant theme of both Last Evenings and Bolano's novel The Savage Detectives (both brilliantly translated). but that way lie ruin, madness and death." ![]() "A poet can endure anything." So begins one of the stories in Roberto Bolano's collection Last Evenings on Earth. ![]()
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