Amulet by Roberto BolañoMy review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
I cannot stop reading Bolaño's books; I'm expecting to hit a wall, but just as the wall approaches, it dissolves into mist. Amulet is similar to By Night in Chile in that it is a delirious narcissistic dream rant from a sideline player in a heady cultural climate. The narrator here is a woman hiding in a fourth floor bathroom as troops occupy a university. It's unclear if the tale that unfolds is a memoir, a mad fantasy, or a brief endorphin supernova at the moment of death; in the hands of this writer, these distinctions are semantic, if they exist at all.
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