"Àlvaro Rousselot's Journey"
by Roberto Bolaño
Rating: 8.6
Short story about an Argentine writer named Álvaro Rousselot. Álvaro Rousselot loved literature as much as any Argentine writer of his generation. In 1950, he published his first novel, “Solitude.” A French edition, called “Nights on the Pampas,” was published in 1954. In 1957, a film entitled “Lost Voices,”
2 comments:
a favorite line:
"I'm not interested in money," Rousselot said quietly. "Nor am I, my poor friend," the publisher said, "and look where it's got me."
another:
For a few days, Rousselot was even preoccupied by the thought that he had lost his best reader, the reader for whom he had really been writing, the only one who was truly capable of responding to his work.
The author's book "The Savage Detectives" is on The New York Times' list:
Top 10 Books of 2007
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