Roberto Bolano
Fragments
Crushed detective...Foreign cities
with Greek-named theatres
The Majorcan boys committed suicide
on the balcony at four in the morning
The girls leaned out upon hearing the first shot
Dionysus Apollo Venus Hercules...
A variety Dawn
over the lines of buildings
A guy who hears the news inside his car
and rain tapping at the bodywork
Orpheus...
trns. by Laura Healy
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Benjamin on the Novel vs Storytelling- Information - the novel-information as debased
From the storyteller: [this was written in the 1930s, amazing] Every morning, news reaches us, from around the globe. And yet we lack rem...