This scene is a masterpiece, it’s basically a textbook depiction of ego death. The shattering of a grand illusion, that desperate final attempt to prove the lie right and then the total psychological collapse. Essential viewing.
Finished. 🖤🖤🖤
my first Bolaño and I now know why people have recommended him to me for years
incredible prose, veers between lucidity and delirium, a man on death's door ransacking his memories in a final attempt to deny his complicity in atrocity