2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano

2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano ebook
Format: epub
Page: 912
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 0312429215, 9780312429218

I'd say 2666 stands with the very short By Night in Chile as the best of these. There is something about it in this novel that made it feel at times more real than real and more true than life itself. Nowhere else is his writing more decadently sampled than with his major novels–”The Savage Detectives” and his magnum opus, “2666,” both translated from the original Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. Roberto Bolaño's final novel 2666, released posthumously, is a sprawling literary tome. I'd say further, among many other attributes, that both novels offer nice examples of viable political fiction, contrary to certain claims. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments. Unlike our editor, Ligaya Mishan, I have yet to finish “2666” and probably won't before the month's end. 2666 is a novel written by Roberto Bolaño and published posthumously in Spanish in 2004. The English translation hits stores next Tuesday and the reviews couldn't be better, especially considering the book's 912 pages. Over the past 2 months, I've been reading Roberto Bolaño's encyclopedic novel 2666 in the spare minutes before bed. It is clear that Bolaño's oeuvre builds towards 2666 and finds its fullest expression in it. The review of Bolaño's novel 2666, the part about Amalfitano (which is shorter than the first installment). In the New York Times, Steven Millhauser recently wrote about the distinctions between the genre of the short story and the novel. When Roberto Bolaño, a Chilean writer seemingly destine for a Nobel Prize had he not passed away so unjustly at the age of 50, chose to use Detroit as a setting in his near-universally acclaimed final novel 2666. Now, I like big books, but only big books that I like. Either there are going to be a lot more posts on this one, or hardly any.