2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano

2666: A Novel



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


The first thing I'll say is it took me a very long time to get through this book. The bookmark that I use in my copy of 2666 is the Christmas card that my brother wrote to me when he gave me the book. Santa Teresa, in the state of Sonora, on the Mexican-U.S. 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. Every book that isn't a masterpiece is cannon fodder, a slogging foot soldier, a piece to be sacrificed, since in multiple ways it mimics the design of the masterpiece. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (2004) (translated from the spanish by Natasha Wimmer, 2008). 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”. 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. Shanghai private library 2666 Shanghai wordsmith Sun Ganlu (孙甘露) dives into a novel at 2666. But I know exactly when I read the first page of Roberto Bolaño's 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. 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. 898 pages, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The novel's cryptic title is one of its many grim jokes; there is no reference to this figure in its 900 pages. I have very little patience for books I'm not enjoying and I have no reluctance to put a book down forever if I'm not getting "pleasure"* from it.