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From Bolaño's library · writer
Gnaeus Naevius
Roman Republic (Campania)
- Where in Bolaño
- The Savage Detectives III, García Madero's poetic-terminology quiz in the car crossing Sonora — asked which poets used the Saturnian, he answers "Livius Andronicus and Naevius. Religious and commemorative poetry."
- Why read them
- Rome's first native epic poet and inventor of the historical play (c. 270–c. 201 BC), jailed for lampooning the Metelli and dead in African exile; the archetype of the poet punished by power, surviving in fragments and a boastful self-written epitaph — fitting cargo for teenagers fleeing a pimp with a dictionary of metrics in their heads.
