Roberto Bolano Quotes
There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
Bolaño, Roberto. The Savage Detectives. Translated by Natasha Wimmer, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
While this was a common attitude for years before, the horrors of World War II produced a general revulsion to war and an awareness that war between two nations spills over to other states in the region and in an era of globalization, effects countries in other parts of the world. So there has been a tendency to use diplomacy endlessly, even after "things have gone too far". Historically, when things reached that point, the parties did fight it out, and when one was weakened sufficiently, negotiations and diplomacy could then be fruitful.
TR was then a Lieutenant Colonel and the regiment he organized was an unusual combination of Ivy League College men, cowboys from the West, and Black Buffalo Soldiers.
Shortly after, he backed off the notion of having a bloodbath removing protesting students.
Although warmly greeted, he was pressed for immediate action. see {638533}.
Roberto Bolaño Ávalos was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. In 1999, Bolaño won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Los detectives salvajes (The Savage Detectives), and in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666, which was described by board member Marcela Valdes as a "work so rich and dazzling that it will surely draw readers and scholars for ages". The New York Times described him as "the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation".
