We learn that the two spent some years in Europe, frequenting bars and camp sites, and generally living a bohemian lifestyle. Each narrator has his or her own opinion of the two, although the consensus is that they are drifters and literary elitists whose behavior often leaves a bitter taste in the mouths of those they meet. It consists of interviews with a variety of characters from locations around North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, all of whom have come into contact with the founding leaders of the Visceral Realists, Ulises Lima and Arturo Belano. The section is a polyphonic narrative which features more than forty narrators and spans twenty years, from 1976 to 1996.
The book's second section, "The Savage Detectives," comprises nearly two-thirds of the novel's total length. He drops out of university and travels around Mexico City, becoming increasingly involved with the adherents of Visceral Realism, although he remains uncertain about Visceral Realism. It centers on his admittance to a roving gang of poets who refer to themselves as the Visceral Realists. The first section, "Mexicans Lost in Mexico", set in late 1975, is told by 17-year-old aspiring poet, Juan García Madero.
The novel is narrated in first person by several narrators and divided into three parts. The novel tells the story of the search for a 1920s Mexican poet, Cesárea Tinajero, by two 1970s poets, the Chilean Arturo Belano (alter ego of Bolaño) and the Mexican Ulises Lima. Natasha Wimmer's English translation was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2007. The Savage Detectives ( Spanish: Los Detectives Salvajes) is a novel by the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño published in 1998.
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