Bolaño’s Anti-Procedural: The Part About The Crimes

by Jean Allen

Do you need another reason to read Bolaño? In this review of 2666, Jean Allen digs into the book’s formal novelty. As an anti-procedural, it upends the traditional roles of Victim and Perpetrator, ordered into place by the heroic deeds of the Detective. In doing so, Allen argues, Bolaño reveals a deep truth: from the global femicide epidemic to Epstein’s human trafficking ring, our society makes perpetrators of us all.

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