The two men open the novel in their early twenties presiding over a circle of teenage poets. In The Savage Detectives, Belano, alongside his fellow poet, compatriot, and enigma Ulises Lima, plays a central role. His two novels published this spring in America, The Savage Detectives and Amulet, each include Arturo Belano, a Chilean living in Mexico City. His short stories often follow B., an itinerant writer dispossessed of Pinochet's Chile, living in Mexico and Spain–the arc of Bolaño's own life. In Bolaño's fiction, Bolaño the man appears on almost every page. And also like them, the myth of the man threatens to swamp his works. Like them, he compressed into a short period–in his case, a single decade–a lifetime's production of beautiful pages. Like them, he lived a mythic, tragic life. When we consider Roberto Bolaño, we might also think of D.
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