One character in this novel is disappointed that his pharmacist reads Bartleby instead of MobyDick and The Metamorphosis over The Trial. Another character interviews the ex-Black Pantherturned motivational speaker Barry Seaman in Detroit, before travelling to the central location tocover a boxing match. That character is the black journalist Oscar Fate, who is trusted withAmalfitano's daughter. Its first section documents
One character in this novel is disappointed that his pharmacist reads Bartleby instead of MobyDick and The Metamorphosis over The Trial. Another character interviews the ex-Black Pantherturned motivational speaker Barry Seaman in Detroit, before travelling to the central location tocover a boxing match. That character is the black journalist Oscar Fate, who is trusted withAmalfitano's daughter. Its first section documents a group of four critics who are obsessed with thereclusive German author Benno von Archimboldi. This novel is divided into five novellas, the fourthof which is a laundry list of (*) unsolved rapes and murders in the town of Santa Teresa, an analog ofCiudad Juarez. For 10 points, name this posthumous masterpiece of Roberto Bolano.
One character in this novel is disappointed that his pharmacist reads Bartleby instead of MobyDick and The Metamorphosis over The Trial.
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