“Popescu began to talk about a Romanian mathematician who lived from 1865 to 1936, a man who spent the last twenty years of his life devoted to the search for some ‘mysterious numbers’ hidden in a part of the vast landscape visible to man, though the numbers themselves were invisible and could live between rocks [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Roberto Bolano’
quam pravus can vos exsisto
Posted: January 12, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Pop MattersTags: 2666, Ciudad Juarez, Deconstruction Zone, Mexican cartels, Pop Matters, Roberto Bolano
Darker shades of the Mexican drug cartel wars than even Roberto Bolano could possibly have envisioned in 2666. From the AP on the latest violence in Ciudad Juarez: On Thursday, police in the northern city of Los Mochis, in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, found the dismembered body of a man whose face had been [...]
Wow, Damn and Jeez …
Posted: October 23, 2009 by Rodger Jacobs in Hideous Music and the Sound of Many ShotgunsTags: 2666, Amigoland, Ciudad Juarez, Deconstruction Zone, Mexico, Octavio Paz, Octavio Solis, Oscar Casares, Pop Matters, Roberto Bolano, Under the Volcano
Honestly, I believe that the October installment of the The Deconstruction Zone for Pop Matters is the best piece so far, thanks in no small part for the brilliant layout by editor Karen Zarker and for award-winning Mexican-American playwright Octavio Solis for allowing me to premiere his original short story, The Jeep in the Water: [...]
Sunday Literary Supplement: Wednesday Edition
Posted: September 15, 2009 by Rodger Jacobs in Sunday Literary SupplementTags: drug war, Joan Didion, Roberto Bolano
Carrying ominous shades of Roberto Bolano’s posthumous novel 2666 comes the news that at least 21 people were murdered in the drug war in Mexico yesterday and the violence is spilling over into Guatemala, with at least eight suspected drug dealers slain there on Tuesday afternoon: The bodies in Guatemala were found in the San [...]
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Posted: July 14, 2009 by Rodger Jacobs in Breakdown on Paradise RoadTags: 2666, Mexico drug wars, Roberto Bolano
“Las piedras rodando se encuentran” (The stones keep rolling) – Mexican proverb – UPDATED BELOW After a relative lull over the last few months, it looks like the barbarism that underscores the drug wars in Mexico has gone from a simmer to a high boil once again. From CNN International: Twelve to 15 bodies showing signs [...]
