Diego Trelles Paz remembers Roberto Bolaño at n +1. Although Paz never met the author (despite several attempts) they corresponded, and he shares some of the emails. Here’s Paz on The Savage Detectives—
What did I like about Bolaño’s novel?
In formal terms, it was clear to me that his prose, while apparently simple, has a restrained and suggestive lyricism and a powerful musicality that are very different than what the authors of the “Boom” produced. Reading Bolaño generated an instant addiction in me: whether due to the lucid and demystifying spirit with which he adopts diverse genres or to his eagerness to involve us as active readers, to offer us fragmented works so we might fill them in with our imaginations. We become accomplices who search for truth through narrative devices that blend reality with fiction, facts with conjectures, apocryphal characters with historical ones. As the critic José Miguel Oviedo has said, “Bolaño always ends up turning his readers into detectives.”
The article also features this marvelous image of Bolaño enjoying an ice cream cone–
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