Roberto bolano 2666 review6/2/2023 ![]() The litany of dead women and girls (many of the victims are very young) has exerted an intensifying pressure on the reader. ![]() By the time Florita makes her television debut, Bolaño has described, in clinical detail, the discovery of dozens of corpses, but no one in any official capacity has been much concerned the police have been busy trying to catch a madman known as the Penitent, whose illness compels him to desecrate churches. ![]() Local, in this case, means Sonora, a state that includes the city Bolaño calls Santa Teresa, which is based on Ciudad Juárez-a bleak, industrial desert hellhole on the Mexican side of the border, where over the past fifteen years hundreds of women (many of them factory workers in the maquiladoras) have been raped and killed, as they are in Bolaño’s book. $30.Īlmost halfway through Roberto Bolaño’s novel 2666, a seventy-year-old seer and healer named Florita Almada appears on a local TV talk show. ![]()
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