![]() 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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