XXIX. Desperate and Visceral: Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño

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XXIX. Desperate and Visceral: Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño

Tatiana and Niko

Oct 12, 2023

Welcome to the official first episode of Season Two! Niko and Tatiana go back to their roots and start with the book that gave the podcast its name: Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño. They discuss impending globalization, the consequences of literature, haunting writers, and jokes.

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Roberto Bolaño

The Infrarealists (Visceral Realists) in Mexico City, 1976. Bolaño (Arturo Belano) second to the right. Possibly Mario Santiago Papasquiaro (Ulises Lima) top and center. Source.

Cover of the Infrarealist magazine, Correspondencia Infra, Mexico City, 1977. Source.

In the Sonora desert. Source.

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Desperate Readers

Tatiana and Niko meet together to discuss great literature of the past and present. In each episode they read a book of contemporary world literature and pair it with a canonical western classic to delve into shared literary themes and questions that writers keep returning to across space and time.

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Sound recording and editing by Niko and Tatiana

Opening music by Seth Thomsen

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