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This practically documents Bolano’s evolution from “meh” to “aw wow”—there’s a particularly discomforting prose poem that’s a massive forty-pound paragraph about a steam bath (?) that’s got small moments I still can’t get out of my head. This book made me want to hate whoever “Lisa” represented from his past. Laura Healy doesn’t quite grasp Bolano’s voice as well as Andrew Hurley or Natasha Wimmer, but she does okay enough. And it was cool seeing proto-ANTWERP/PEOPLE WALKING AWAY (my favorite novel) before all the fat got cut out of it.


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The Unknown University Roberto Bolaño Laura Healy 9780811219280 Books Reviews

This welcome, handsomely prepared, and carefully rendered collection of poems will amplify but not change the world of poetry. Still, the collection excites and makes compelling reading. Most of the lyrics inhabit or conjure the lands of Chile, Spain, Mexico, and Memory while maintaining a conversation with or doffing caps toward a strange zodiac including the likes of Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Dino Campana, and Nicanor Parra among others.

These lyrics, given in Spanish on one side of the page and the smart translations of Laura Healy on the other, rarely seek the status of music but each makes a statement of some personal, poetic or intellectual kind. The poems grant the reader an opportunity to visit with the voice, eyes, and mind of Roberto Bolano, unmediated by the machinations of character or the hinges of plot. It seems each poem proved necessary to the poet and such love sufficiently guides my acceptance of them.

Each poem is finished, quite unlike the novels. Some are prose poems, some are epigrams, some are more standard lyrical effluences. Few in modern literature aim at significant work in both poetry and prose. Bolano's poems, as a means of comparison, are more truthful than Nabokov's, more abundant than Beckett's, less refined than Borges's, less musical than Dario's and they do not enchant exactly. They do, however, further establish the credibility of the author's voice and his own dedication to life's changeable expressibility, even in its pathless and dark patches. There is little chance these poems will adhere to my own heart for bonfire or waiting room recitation but they are vital and very good company.

An index of titles is present for both the Spanish and the English, but, in contrast to the Spanish volume I possess, the dates of appearance for published poems is not given which may provide less help to one aiming at a chronological comparison of the poems and fictions of the author. It is also important to note that this volume is not the complete or collected poetry of Roberto Bolano but a translation of the poems included in La Universidad Desconocida.
Roberto Bolaño believed that the best poetry of the 20th century had been written in the form of prose. In a somewhat controversial statement, Bolaño had declared that James Joyce's Ulysses contained Eliot's The Wasteland, and that the Ulysses was a much greater book than The Wasteland. In 2002 he published a book of poetry, Amberes, which he presented as if it were a novel. He later said that this was the only book of which he was not ashamed, perhaps because it was still unintelligible. Following the same reasoning, The Unknown University should be in the same category of Amberes. This, however, is a much more ambitious book.

Bolaño's poems are the poems written by Bolaño's characters. By writing unintelligible compositions -Bolaño's reasoning would follow- the poet becomes a hero. The poet as hero becomes more than apparent in The Savage Detectives, which narrates (from dozens points of view) the adventures of two poets who would like to disappear from the world. The Unknown University, I would argue, is a book full of "newspaper cuts" that seeks to explain the solitary world of the poet in the present moment. Nevertheless, it is also the remembrance of a past plagued by violence and fraternity. In other words, it is the explanation to why a poet (in The Savage Detectives' case, Lima and Belano) would want to travel around the world in order to disappear, all the while encountering a number of strange and interesting characters (which would constitute the different narrators in The Savage Detectives).

The Unknown University is a necessary book within Bolaño's oeuvre. Overall, it helps to place this world of lost poets and strange characters within the imaginary unconscious.
This luxury bilingual edition does great honor to one the greatest latin american poets in the 20th Century. His poetry is even better than his excellent novels. You should by it and have it with you at all times.
Book arrived and was in wonderful condition. Thanks.
This practically documents Bolano’s evolution from “meh” to “aw wow”—there’s a particularly discomforting prose poem that’s a massive forty-pound paragraph about a steam bath (?) that’s got small moments I still can’t get out of my head. This book made me want to hate whoever “Lisa” represented from his past. Laura Healy doesn’t quite grasp Bolano’s voice as well as Andrew Hurley or Natasha Wimmer, but she does okay enough. And it was cool seeing proto-ANTWERP/PEOPLE WALKING AWAY (my favorite novel) before all the fat got cut out of it.