{"id":255306,"date":"2007-08-30T15:21:28","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T15:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/08\/30\/more-bolano\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:42","slug":"more-bolano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/08\/30\/more-bolano\/","title":{"rendered":"More Bolano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bolano love just doesn&#8217;t stop . . . This week it&#8217;s Ben Kunkel in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v29\/n17\/kunk01_.html\"><i>London Review of Books<\/i><\/a> on <i>The Savage Detectives<\/i>, <i>Last Evenings on Earth<\/i>, and <i>Amulet<\/i>. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Bola\u00f1o\u2019s desperado image is a large part of his appeal. His revolutionary politics and the personal risk they entailed, the movement he founded, his poverty, exile and addiction, his death in his prime: the combination of these elements is foreign to the increasingly professionalised career of the contemporary writer. Bola\u00f1o\u2019s dishevelled, wandering characters are, more profoundly than they are left-wing, anti-bourgeois, which is to say disdainful of comfort, security and success: an attitude more than a politics, but the attitude is deeply felt. Even to write \u2018marvellously well\u2019, Bola\u00f1o declared, was not enough; \u2018the quality of the writing\u2019 depended on the author\u2019s understanding \u2018that literature is basically a dangerous calling\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And obviously, this means the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/contents.php\"><i>LRB<\/i><\/a> is out, with some of its contents available online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bolano love just doesn&#8217;t stop . . . This week it&#8217;s Ben Kunkel in the London Review of Books on The Savage Detectives, Last Evenings on Earth, and Amulet. Bola\u00f1o\u2019s desperado image is a large part of his appeal. His revolutionary politics and the personal risk they entailed, the movement he founded, his poverty, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[2676,1836,966,1646,756],"class_list":["post-255306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-benjamin-kunkel","tag-cwp","tag-london-review-of-books","tag-review","tag-roberto-bolano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328356,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255306\/revisions\/328356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}