2666 by Roberto Bolaño: “Amalfitano was attacked until he resembled the bird in Azuela's Mangy Parrot, gutted and plucked to the last feather.”
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño: “the furnishings and human specimens ... seemed arbitrarily plucked from Lizardi's The Mangy Parrot, Mariano Azuela's The Underdogs, del Paso's José Trigo...”