Horacio Castellanos Moya, the author of Senselessness [review], again tackles the commodification of Roberto Bolaño, this time in a lengthy piece in Guernica. “It’s the landlords of the market,” he writes, “who decide the mambo that you dance.”
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Castellanos Moya on the Bolaño Bubble, Part Two
By Garth Risk Hallberg posted at 4:09 pm on November 3, 2009 1
at 9:23 pm on November 4, 2009
Love the sly “If he did take a lover…” lead about midway through the piece. Only time I’ve ever read anything about that, and odd in a piece of this tone and purpose.