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The Savage Detectives
by Roberto Bolaño
Aug. 16, 2024 - Aug. 19, 2024 (read, fiction)

Bolaño, R. (2008). The Savage Detectives. Picador.


Picador, 2008. 648 pages. Paperback. 9780312427481

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threnodic »
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(relating to) a poem, speech, or song of lamentat…
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epicede »
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(noun) a funeral song or ode : dirge, elegy.
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catachresis »
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(noun) use of the wrong word for the context / (n…
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polysemous »
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when a word or phrase has multiple meanings (from…
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charnel »
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(noun) a building or chamber in which bodies or b…
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my generation all overdosed on Marx and Rimbaud
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When I went back to Paris, he stayed in Luanda an…
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possibly also forgeries
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[...] I met dealers who were interested in my wor…
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the common fate of all mankind
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[...] Do you have relatives in Sonora? I said. No…
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still I understood nothing
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By then I think I could recite Don Pío’s story by…
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someone has to defend the murderers
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[...] Someone has to defend the murderers, the cr…

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1. Mexicans Lost in Mexico (1975)

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2. The Savage Detectives (1976-1996)

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3. The Sonora Desert (1976)

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The Sonora Desert (1976)

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