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1: The Part About the Critics
2: The Part About Amalfitano
... I found to be tedious to read, but the constant tangents, side- stories, etc
is still interesting all in all.

The book is more like 5 parts = 5 novels, but they all tie together somehow, where one minor character in one part, becomes the main in the next.

Part 1 of 4 literary snobs/ critics who study German literature and are on the quest to find Archimboldi, their beloved writer who they travel south to find him, but really never do.. I guess that's where 5: The Part About Archimboldi comes to play (err like six hundred blah blah pages later). More like a love triangle with off set dreams and travels from Paris to London, Madrid to Paris, etc, references to Spanish lit, its not a bad way to start the book.

Part 2 I found easier, with a philosophy professor from part 1 that becomes the main character and why he seems to have gone mad, drama with a wife that has left him and their daughter to follow a poet, then comes back to find him; an unowned deteriorating book plus philosophy geometry diagrams; hearing a voice of someone who ends up not who he originally thinks to be...

Yea this book is all the hype and it really deserves it (well for the 200+ pages I've read at least...) err ah..yea Im taking a break.