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Title: A Ramble with Roberto
Review: The New Your Times Book Review has said nice things about Bolano's two newest novels, but I decided to step back and start with an earlier novella, By Night in Chile. I was disappointed. The narrative rambles among various conversations about literature and cultural history with nothing much at stake for the characters. It is oddly without plot.Moreover, Bolano formats his story into only two paragraphs, the last one consisting of only a seven word sentence at the end, on page 130. All dialogue is embedded in the one paragraph without quotation marks. Paragraph breaks and quotation marks are courtesies to the reader, and departures from these conventions should be artistically justified. In this book, the departures are merely rude.Bolano's great theme, according to The New York Times, is the sorry state of literature in his native land. I wonder if I'm the only reader to think that By Night in Chile is part of the problem.
