2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano

2666: A Novel



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


Over the past 2 months, I've been reading Roberto Bolaño's encyclopedic novel 2666 in the spare minutes before bed. If the streets of Santa Teresa and the style of 2666 are anarchic and the epigraph refers to our corrosive modernity and its abuses of freedom and desires, then we can anticipate an even more sprawling post-modern novel. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (2004) (translated from the spanish by Natasha Wimmer, 2008). 2666 is a novel written by Roberto Bolaño and published posthumously in Spanish in 2004. "You could say 2666 is the epic novel that Borges never wrote. The first thing I'll say is it took me a very long time to get through this book. What I did was read a book with 2,666 pages. Poetry, on the other hand, was completely homosexual.” So begins Roberto Bolaño's final posthumous published novel, Woes of the True Policeman. 898 pages, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Shanghai private library 2666 Shanghai wordsmith Sun Ganlu (孙甘露) dives into a novel at 2666. Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives took the literary world by storm, and his latest posthumous release, 2666, is five times as long and ten times as ambitious. I'd say further, among many other attributes, that both novels offer nice examples of viable political fiction, contrary to certain claims. The wide ranging geography and time frame of 2666 defy easy summary. Reading "2666", "it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish Roberto Bolaño's genius from his excess. The English translation hits stores next Tuesday and the reviews couldn't be better, especially considering the book's 912 pages. No, I didn't buy 2,666 Brussels sprouts. For the past week, I have been walking around, trying to think of what — finally — to say about Roberto Bolaño's novel, 2666. I'd say 2666 stands with the very short By Night in Chile as the best of these. July 22, 2009 @ 10:27 pm · Filed under Recipes · Tags:books; fictional cooking; veggies.