Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas - French Comedy of Horrors Summary & Analysis

Roberto Bolaño
This Study Guide consists of approximately 34 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Cowboy Graves.
Related Topics

Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas - French Comedy of Horrors Summary & Analysis

Roberto Bolaño
This Study Guide consists of approximately 34 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Cowboy Graves.
This section contains 1,159 words
(approx. 3 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy the Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas Study Guide

Summary

In “French Comedy of Horrors”, Diodorus Pilon sits at a café during the solar eclipse. He and his mentor, Roger Bolamba, watch a couple perform “a dance that [is] somehow anachronistic but at the same time terrifying, and that, according to Bolamba, [is] known only deep in the northern rain forests” (80). At a table next to them, a well-dressed man is sitting with two women, one of whom claims to have gone blind. The narrator and his group of artist friends sneer at her theatrical display and leave the café. Later that night, the protagonist walks home and “instead of turning right toward the sea, turn[s] left onto a fairly wide street running uphill, almost imperceptibly at first” (86). As he strolls, he hears the call of a bird and calls back to it. The bird does not return his vocalization...

(read more from the French Comedy of Horrors Summary)

This section contains 1,159 words
(approx. 3 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy the Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas Study Guide
Copyrights
BookRags
Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas from BookRags. (c)2024 BookRags, Inc. All rights reserved.