"...and when he said, 'García Madero? Never really heard of him'... Fuck off! Like shut up!! I'm annoyed. What am I reading for then? ... It just feels like I'm not getting anywhere. Yeah. Whatever."

I would say that is pretty insightful.

I sometimes wonder about what and how Bolaño envisioned his readers to react to his writing, the format, the characters... I think as a writer it is inevitable to think about your audience and their expectations/experience. Oftentimes, I think Bolaño is trying to piss us off. Or engage some kind of frustration and confusion. I am trying not to conflate Bolaño and Belano as much as I previously was, but I do think this is how Belano would write prose. Something about Belano falling in love all the time, massive pendulums between confidence and shatteringly low self-esteem, and his comments about Sión (is it mystery? poetry? no, Amadeo, it's a joke) creates a very specific character image about him. Meaning that, in all honesty, I do not take him that seriously. An ounce, (perhaps more), of that does transfer onto Bolaño himself.

So... what are we reading for? Where are we going? To say: yeah, fuck off, whatever.