Comments on: Sunday Review: Roberto Bolaño’s The Return http://www.writerlylife.com/2012/07/sunday-review-roberto-bolanos-the-return/ With daily writing exercises, tips and techniques, and thoughts on the writing life, Writerly Life is for the writer in all of us. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:01:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: mary brady http://www.writerlylife.com/2012/07/sunday-review-roberto-bolanos-the-return/comment-page-1/#comment-9770 mary brady Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:56:57 +0000 http://www.writerlylife.com/?p=3666#comment-9770 I picked up a collection of Bolano’s short stories several years back at the time he died, relatively young, in his early 50s. I was simply haunted by his photo & decided I had to find out what I could about him through his writing.

I couldn’t hack much of it. I found it fairly boring. I did get the sense I’d entered another world & I wondered if I did not ‘get’ his writing because I had no experience of that world’s culture. And you never know how well a work has been translated.

Just recently I looked closely at a map of South America. There are NOT many countries there! Still, I tend to just lump them together as ‘the lower half’ & do not know much about each country’s ‘identity.’

I’m just happy The Monroe Doctrine is in place & we, the US, have complete control over our hemisphere! Whew. Otherwise, we might end up with a Hugo Chavez or a Fidel Castro running a country smack dab in OUR hemisphere!

Scary! L&K, MaryB

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