The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolano.
New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Bolano and Ulises Lima, poets and leaders of a movement they call visceral realism, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their mission: to track down the poet Cesarea Tinajero, who disappeared into the Sonoran Desert (and into obscurity) decades before. But the detectives are themselves hunted men, and their search for the past will end in violence, flight, and permanent exile. In this dazzling novel, the book that established Roberto Bola o's international reputation, he tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes - the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself - on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe: our own.
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Two poets from an obscure school, the visceral realists, go in search of one who disappeared decades before but in their turn are also being hunted. My first, and still much my favourite Bolano novel. A better outline is in the alt text. Bolano at his very best.
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