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2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano

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

Roberto Bolaño's 2666 is an obsessive and world-shifting epic. This is as good a notion as any when thinking about Roberto Bolaño's monstrous novel 2666. €�”The Part About Fate,” 2666, p.348. 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. 2666 by Roberto Bolano, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. 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. What more is there to say about 2666? 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. The question of whether 2666 is a total novel seems interesting enough for its own thread. When I read it, I will be completely absorbed by it. Namely, Bolaño's wish was for 2666 to be published in separate volumes, one per year ( I believe). 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.