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2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano
Publisher: Picador

2666, a novel by Chilean writer, Roberto Bolano, was published posthumously in 2004. Since Bolaño's mind tends to work most powerfully in self-contained bursts (anecdotes, images, monologues) rather than in narrative continuity, skipping around is far less of a ño-ño than it would be in a traditional novel. Now that I have that distance, no tangible perspective has come other than this: nothing else I've read since has been 2666. Perhaps the first online group read of the novel was the "National Reading '2666' Month", a month-long reading by The New Yorker (The Book Bench) in January 2009. 2666 is one of those novels which push the limits of the novel past its conventional size and scope, and its 893 pages of text definitely is one literary mammoth. 2666 is the literary testament of the Latin-American writer--as he called himself--Roberto Bolaño. By Roberto Bolaño (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) $30. Facetious, I know, but hey, I got through the book. Perhaps the only writer of international inter. In the second section of 2666, Bolano moves away from the “academic novel” of the critics (and reality as we know it) and delves into the polarities of the known and the unknown, truth vs. I can imagine that as a book 2666 would present a huge challenge to me, because it's very testing in places. 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. No other book has done to me what 2666 did. And the experience was generally positive. In his post “Castle Dracula” at Infinite Zombies, Daryl L. It is clear that Bolaño's oeuvre builds towards 2666 and finds its fullest expression in it. Namely, Bolaño's wish was for 2666 to be published in separate volumes, one per year ( I believe).