The Savage Detectives
Quotes from the Book
Philip K. Dick died and now we only need what is strictly necessary.
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Absolute beauty, That which contains all the world's majesty and misery And which is only visible to those who love.
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En aquel tiempo yo tenía veinte años y estaba loco. Había perdido un país pero había ganado un sueño. Y si tenía ese sueño lo demás no importaba.
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Her eyes like the ideal geography book: maps of pure nightmare. "The Ghost of Edna Lieberman
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Right now you can cry and let your image dissolve on the windshields of cars parked along the Boardwalk. But you can't lose yourself.
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Sólo la fiebre y la poesía provocan visiones. / Sólo el amor y la memoria. / No estos caminos ni estas llanuras. / No estos laberintos.
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Only fever and poetry provoke visions. Only love and memory.
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EL FANTASMA DE EDNA LIEBERMAN Te visitan en la hora más oscura todos tus amores perdidos. El camino de tierra que conducía al manicomio se despliega otra vez como los ojos de Edna Lieberman, como sólo podían sus ojos elevarse por encima de las ciudades y brillar. Y brillan nuevamente para ti los ojos de Edna detrás del aro de fuego que antes era el camino de tierra, la senda que recorriste de noche, ida y vuelta, una y otra vez, buscándola o acaso buscando tu sombra. Y despiertas silenciosamente y los ojos de Edna están allí. Entre la luna y el aro de fuego, leyendo a sus poetas mexicanos favoritos. ¿ y a Gilberto Owen, lo has leído?, dicen tus labios sin sonido, dice tu respiración y tu sangre que circula como la luz de un faro. Pero son sus ojos el faro que atraviesa tu silencio. Sus ojos que son como el libro de geografía ideal: los mapas de la pesadilla pura. Y tu sangre ilumina los estantes con libros, las sillas con libros, el suelo lleno de libros apilados. Pero los ojos de Edna sólo te buscan a ti. Sus ojos son el libro más buscado. Demasiado tarde lo has entendido, pero no importa. En el sueño vuelves a estrechar sus manos, y ya no pides nada.
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Brief like beauty, Absolute beauty, That which contains all the world's majesty and misery And which is only visible to those who love.
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And quick strokes of other less intimate adventures Flashed in her wounded eyes like fireflies.
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Poets of Troy Nothing that could have been yours Exists anymore Not temples not gardens Not poetry You are free Admirable poets of Troy
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About the book
Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) has caught on like a house on fire, and The Romantic Dogs, a bilingual collection of forty-four poems, offers American readers their first chance to encounter this literary phenomenon as a poet: his own first and strongest literary persona. These poems, wide-ranging in forms and length, have appeared in magazines such as Harper's, Threepenny Review, The Believer, Boston Review, Soft Targets, Tin House, The Nation, Circumference, A Public Space, and Conduit.
Book details
- First published
- 1993
- Author
- Roberto Bolaño
- Genre
- Literature
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- 3.95 (2k ratings)
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