Name: Woes of the True Policeman
ISBN: 9781447233329

Roberto Bolaño

Crushed by a devastating scandal, university professor Óscar Amalfitano flees Barcelona for Santa Teresa – a Mexican city close to the US border. In this sprawling town, where women are being killed in staggering numbers, Amalfitano begins an affair with Castillo, a young forger of Larry Rivers paintings, while his daughter, Rosa, reeling from the weight of his secrets, seeks solace in a romance of her own. Featuring characters and stories from The Savage Detectives and 2666, Roberto Bolaño’s Woes of the True Policeman explores the power of art, memory, and desire – and marks the culmination of one of the great careers of world literature.

Woes of the True Policeman

"An unfinished masterpiece from the author of THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES and 2666"--

Donald

If you have not read 2666, do not read this. If you have read 2666, read this.

(The Arcimboldi of this novel is very different and not as interesting. I don't know how to evaluate this book as a stand-alone novel [as that, it's probably a failure - though, of course, that's not fair because it's unfinished] because I didn't read it as a stand-alone novel: I read it as an addition to the literary world of Bolaño. In that regard it was excellent. The style is somewhere between 2666 and Savage Detectives without being as accomplished as either one. But if you're a Bolaño fanatic - aka a reader with a pulse - you will read this no matter what I write here, so...)

Woes of the True Policeman

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