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2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano

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

More than a month ago I began reading Roberto Bolaño's 2666, I suppose on a lark. "You could say 2666 is the epic novel that Borges never wrote. Chilean author Roberto Bolano posthumously won the National Book Critics Circle award Thursday night for the English translation of his 912-page novel 2666. This is as good a notion as any when thinking about Roberto Bolaño's monstrous novel 2666. There is something about it in this novel that made it feel at times more real than real and more true than life itself. While I certainly don't take everything he says or writes as gospel, his distaste of Bolaño sours my enjoyment of the novel. 2666, a novel by Chilean writer, Roberto Bolano, was published posthumously in 2004. Chilean author Roberto Bolaño left behind a surfeit of unfinished manuscripts after his death, but nothing was more intriguing than a reported sixth part of 2666, his bestselling magnum opus. It is clear that Bolaño's oeuvre builds towards 2666 and finds its fullest expression in it. The novel's cryptic title is one of its many grim jokes; there is no reference to this figure in its 900 pages. He completed its first draft shortly before his death in 2004. This is the issue that Roberto Bolano sets up in his novel 2666. Calling Roberto Bolano's 2666 a novel is somewhat misleading. 2666.jpg Roberto Bolano's novel 2666 is a turbulent structure. Certainly, it bears many attributes of a work of long fiction – memorable characters, richly evoked locations, abundant action, recurrent themes.