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From Bolaño's library · writer
Azorín
Spain
- Where in Bolaño
- The Savage Detectives II
- Why read them
- José Martínez Ruiz (1873–1967), the pen name that christened the Generation of '98; a miniaturist of dusty Castilian towns and clock-slow afternoons who pared the Spanish sentence to the bone, then spent the Franco years as a quiet ornament of the regime — the sort of settled national monument Bolaño's vagabond poets exist to annoy.
