First Lines: Roberto Bolano - The Savage Detectives

I've been cordially invited to join the visceral realists.

From my vaults: Roberto Bolaño

Bio:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Bola%C3%B1o

First Lines: Roberto Bolano - 2666

The first time that Jean-Claude Pelletier read Benno von Archimboldi was Christmas 1980, in Paris, when he was nineteen years old and studying German literature.