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2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano

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

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. It was reported that he was not completely finished writing or editing the novel at the time of his death. Certainly, it bears many attributes of a work of long fiction – memorable characters, richly evoked locations, abundant action, recurrent themes. I'd say further, among many other attributes, that both novels offer nice examples of viable political fiction, contrary to certain claims. 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. 2666 Roberto Bolaño´s novel 2666 takes off from five different airstrips and touches down in more locations than a Jason Bourne movie. According to his heirs, Roberto Bolaño left instructions that his final work, 2666, should be published as five separate novels, each corresponding to one of the sections of the book as it appears today. He completed its first draft shortly before his death in 2004. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño For an 800-page, translated novel in five sections, 2666 is an unbelievable pleasure to read. 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. 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. Calling Roberto Bolano's 2666 a novel is somewhat misleading. Roberto Bolaño died shortly after presenting the first draft of 2666 to his publisher, Anagrama. Roberto Bolaño's final novel 2666, released posthumously, is a sprawling literary tome. And this is probably why, out of all the 'books' in 2666, I liked Book II best. Bolaño, in fact, when he realized he was dying (d. Not every writer would write a novel in the form of a completely invented encyclopaedia of imaginary writers and call the result Nazi Literature in the Americas. Chilean author Roberto Bolano posthumously won the National Book Critics Circle award Thursday night for the English translation of his 912-page novel 2666. I'm about 600 pages into Roberto Bolaño's 2666 –a book that is both horrible and hypnotic, one of the few Bolaño works I've been able to finish (Amuleto was the other one). I'd say 2666 stands with the very short By Night in Chile as the best of these.