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A review by emalda
The Third Reich by Roberto Bolaño
4.0
What just happened? I am purely giving this 5 for confusion and awe.
I don't really know what to say. I loved how the main charachter develops and how the diary entries are mixed with game descriptions. I love the language and the "dialogue". I love this story, but I really don't know what happened and why and I couldn't care less, because this is all you need and all a story needs to keep the reader/listener in it's grip. I will very likely go through this again as I will and have done with Bolaño's other work. I am truly enthralled that such a writer has existed such a short time ago. His works make me feel like at home and a bit humbled too. Truly a master of his craft he was.
I'm not sure what this reminds me of except it's written like its older than it is. A contemporary Goethe who shoots himself in the head just to be woken up/born again. So many bubbles burst. So many dicks teased. I highly recommend this for anyone who loves the mundane and who has ever lost interest or doubted their enthusiam with a subject someone else didn't understand :) Also to those who've had strange and more or less romantic encounters in strange places and times of their lives.
I don't really know what to say. I loved how the main charachter develops and how the diary entries are mixed with game descriptions. I love the language and the "dialogue". I love this story, but I really don't know what happened and why and I couldn't care less, because this is all you need and all a story needs to keep the reader/listener in it's grip. I will very likely go through this again as I will and have done with Bolaño's other work. I am truly enthralled that such a writer has existed such a short time ago. His works make me feel like at home and a bit humbled too. Truly a master of his craft he was.
I'm not sure what this reminds me of except it's written like its older than it is. A contemporary Goethe who shoots himself in the head just to be woken up/born again. So many bubbles burst. So many dicks teased. I highly recommend this for anyone who loves the mundane and who has ever lost interest or doubted their enthusiam with a subject someone else didn't understand :) Also to those who've had strange and more or less romantic encounters in strange places and times of their lives.