The Eye by Robert Bolano

     Although this story was  pretty quick and easily understandable, it just seems to me to be pointless. The story is about a character who is known as the "eye". I believe they call him this because he tries to avoid conflict and violence in any way possible, keeping a sharp eye out at all times, hence the nick name.
     I think the eye was originally from chile but moved to mexico city which is where he meet the nararator of the story. The nararrator and the eye became pretty close friends while in mexico city. The eye eventually got a job as a photographer, which in turn earned him more money. The eye then started to dress better wearing nice collered shirts and sometimes even a tie. Then the rumors starting going around that the eye was gay, which some say was the reason that he moved from chile in the first place. Eventually the eye got a job offer in Paris and decided to take it. The eye and the nararator went out on the town one last night together and this is when the eye finally told him that he was gay. After the night was over both of them went back home and lost touch for a long time since the eye got the job in Paris.
     Two or three years after the eye has left Mexico the narrarator also went to Paris to try and find the eye. Although he was trying to not be very obvious about it. After a while with no luck the nararator was walking home one night and just happened to find the eye sitting on a bench in a little park area. To me this is where the story gets a little weird. The eye gets sent to India i think it is, for work. Here he has to take pictures of the local underground prostitution ring. He gets taken around to all these sketchy brothels and eventually ends up in one with a bunch of young boys in it. Somehow something happens and some of the boys are supposed to be given to a God as some sort of offering and to do this the boy has to be castrated. Well eventually the eye is taken into the back with a young boy were he meets the doctor and sees another young boy waiting to be castrated. The violence factor kicks in for the eye and he grabs the two young boys and runs out of the brothel.
     He takes the boys away from the town to a little village were he thinks no one can find them. He constantly worries about the police coming to get him for running away with the boys. When he receives word that the police aren't coming then he gets worried that some goons from the brothel will come get him, which terrifies him even more than the police. While living with the two boys he tells the local people that they are his children. The eye takes up farming and even helps some of the larger farmers in the area when they need it. The eye enjoys living with the boys and begins to think of them as his own children. Eventually a disease hits the area and the two young boys die. The eye is heartbroken and contacts one of his friends from Paris, who i believe was his gay lover while he lived in Paris. The man sends him money to get back to Paris and this is pretty much how the story ends.
    Like i said earlier this was a pretty good story. Towards the middle of the story it starts to get a little weird and i really don't understand the point of the story.