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2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano

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

Unlike our editor, Ligaya Mishan, I have yet to finish “2666” and probably won't before the month's end. The first thing I'll say is it took me a very long time to get through this book. And this is probably why, out of all the 'books' in 2666, I liked Book II best. 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. Published a year after his death and translated into English a few more years later, it is an enormous book that defies summary. This is the issue that Roberto Bolano sets up in his novel 2666. You can't talk about 2666 without mentioning the book design. 898 pages, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Facetious, I know, but hey, I got through the book. A few weeks ago I said that I was considering doing the group read of Robert Bolano's novel 2666. This is as good a notion as any when thinking about Roberto Bolaño's monstrous novel 2666. And the experience was generally positive. 2666 is Roberto Bolano's master statement. Kevin Nguyen interviews Charlotte Strick, the designer of 2666's U.S. It wasn't as if I had been dying to read it. Roberto Bolaño's final novel 2666, released posthumously, is a sprawling literary tome. As I was reading the passage in Bolaño's novel 2666 on page 40 through 41 I was reminded of the article from the New York Times we read last week entitled, “Analyzing Literature and Words by Numbers”. I can imagine that as a book 2666 would present a huge challenge to me, because it's very testing in places. While I certainly don't take everything he says or writes as gospel, his distaste of Bolaño sours my enjoyment of the novel. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (2004) (translated from the spanish by Natasha Wimmer, 2008). "You could say 2666 is the epic novel that Borges never wrote.