The Savage Detectives
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The Savage Detectives is a celebrated novel by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño that follows a group of young poets across decades and continents in a fragmented, polyphonic narrative.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Roberto Bolaño NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awarded | Rómulo Gallegos Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1999 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Chile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| criticalReception | highly acclaimed ⓘ |
| englishPublicationYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| firstPublicationCountry | Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followsInPublicationOrder | Distant Star NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
bildungsroman
ⓘ
literary fiction ⓘ postmodern novel ⓘ |
| hasCharacterBasedOn |
Mario Santiago Papasquiaro
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roberto Bolaño NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includedIn | 21st-century literary canon lists ⓘ |
| literaryMovementDepicted | visceral realism ⓘ |
| mainCharacters |
Arturo Belano
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cesárea Tinajero NERFINISHED ⓘ Juan García Madero NERFINISHED ⓘ Ulises Lima NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeForm |
fragmented narrative
ⓘ
polyphonic narrative ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | multiple first-person narrators ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of Latin American literary underground
ⓘ
experimental structure ⓘ large cast of narrators ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Los detectives salvajes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfAuthorOeuvre | Roberto Bolaño bibliography ⓘ |
| precedesInPublicationOrder | Amulet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1998 ⓘ |
| publisher | Editorial Anagrama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Africa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ Mexico City NERFINISHED ⓘ Sonora Desert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| themes |
exile
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literary avant-garde ⓘ memory ⓘ poetry ⓘ search for identity ⓘ youth ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ 1990s ⓘ |
| title | The Savage Detectives NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| translatedBy | Natasha Wimmer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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