“In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats”
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Roberto BolañoOriginal title Los detectives salvajes (Spanish, 1998)
The Savage Detectives is a novel by the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño published in 1998. Natasha Wimmer's English translation was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2007. The novel tells the story of the search for a 1920s Mexican poet, Cesárea Tinajero, by two 1970s poets, the Chilean Arturo Belano and the Mexican Ulises Lima.
“We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?”
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“I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.”
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“Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.”
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Variant: There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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“we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.”
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“Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.”
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