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3x Bolaño in The Nation
Roberto Bolaño gets triple coverge in The Nation, including, impressively, a review of one of his titles not yet available in English.
Happy as I always am to see more Bolaño coverage Stateside, I’m becoming convinced that Bolaño is going to get super uber coverge this year (especially with 2666 arriving in the fall). And that’s not necessarily in the best interets of Bolaño or coverage of translation in the U.S.
I’m fully on-board that this man was a monumental writer and deserves all this attention, but there are other writers out there that could use some of this coverage. There’s just something unseemly about how he’s become the "it" foreign writer since The Savage Detectives hit, as if there aren’t other amazing authors writing outside of the U.S.
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Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk (2006, English 2010)
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True, there are many others that deserve the American reader’s attention, but Bolaño is transcendent, while many just sound quirky, and we’ve already got so many Pynchonesque tomes to get through. Where does one find the time?
You, yourself, produced an awful lot of coverage on Bolaño last season. I believe I first learned about him here in your column. Thanks for that!
Two things make him deserving of all this attention: he was a master of his style, in the way that, say, Saramago is, and there is a finite oeuvre that makes reading everything he produced an attractive proposition.
As for others still unknown on U.S. shores, tell us who–we depend on critics like you to steer us to the good stuff, at least I do.
Keep up the good work.