Curveballs from the Last Century in “Yesterday” – Chicago Review of Books

Curveballs from the Last Century in “Yesterday” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Reading his biography, one gets the feeling that the Chilean writer Juan Emar could have walked right off the page of one of Roberto Bolaño’s kaleidoscopic capers about reclusive writers, fascist politics, and the international avant-garde. Indeed, Bolaño included a nod to Emar in The Savage Detectives, naming a Mexican bullfighters’ bar—the Peña Taurina … Read more