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There are books to read when you're upset. Many of them. There is also literature for when you're calm. I think that's the best kind. And there is literature for when you're sad. And another for when you're joyful. There is literature for when you're thirsty for knowledge. And there is a different literature for when you're hopeless. It was this last kind of literature that Ulises Lima and Belano wanted to produce.

On the last day of 1975, Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, the founders of the "visceral realism" movement, left Mexico in a borrowed car. Their aim was to find the trace of the mysterious poet Cesárea Tinajero, who had disappeared in the Sonora Desert many years ago. When Belano and Lima’s search, which turns into a chase, and their adventures spanning the next twenty years are told through both their close friends and people their paths crossed from all over the world, the story of a generation emerges.

One of the most important examples of contemporary Latin American novel, The Wild Detectives is about being young and a poet in a world where borders and genres blend: being Latin American and an exile, believing in literature as well as in life and death…

A magnificent, groundbreaking work, just like Cortázar’s Hopscotch. The new literary movements of the 2000s would follow the path opened by this work.

- Enrique Vila-Matas

(From the Promotion Bulletin)

Paste Type : 2. Dough

Number of Pages : 784

Size : 13 x 19

Year of First Printing : 2019

Number of Prints : 1st Edition