2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano

2666: A Novel



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ISBN: 0312429215, 9780312429218
Page: 912
Publisher: Picador
Format: epub


Facetious, I know, but hey, I got through the book. 2666 opens with a novel about four European literary critics, academics, who specialize in the work of a fictional German novelist, Benno von Archimboldi. Obviously there's a part of me that applauds the willingness of all three critics, at a time when 2666 was the Hot Hot Book in the US, to swim against the current. When I read it, I will be completely absorbed by it. But I know exactly when I read the first page of Roberto Bolaño's 2666. 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. I can imagine that as a book 2666 would present a huge challenge to me, because it's very testing in places. 2666 is the literary testament of the Latin-American writer--as he called himself--Roberto Bolaño. Santa Teresa, in the state of Sonora, on the Mexican-U.S. That's not something very many people are willing to do. The wide ranging geography and time frame of 2666 defy easy summary. Roberto Bolaño's 2666 is an obsessive and world-shifting epic. 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. For the past week, I have been walking around, trying to think of what — finally — to say about Roberto Bolaño's novel, 2666. Perhaps the only writer of international inter. 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. And the experience was generally positive. The reason I bought 2666 wasn't because I knew I was getting stomach flu, but because of my occasional worry that I'm too old to experience a new novel as a masterpiece. In his post “Castle Dracula” at Infinite Zombies, Daryl L.