2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano

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

He completed its first draft shortly before his death in 2004. Chilean author Roberto Bolano posthumously won the National Book Critics Circle award Thursday night for the English translation of his 912-page novel 2666. I think it's worth the commitment of time and attention, and I haven't read any reviews from any of my friends. 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. Roberto Bolaño's 2666 is an obsessive and world-shifting epic. Several days ago, I came out with a rather clumsy post (mostly written during my lunch break) comparing "The Part About Archimboldi" to a novel by Jakov Lind called Landscape in Concrete. Reading "2666", "it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish Roberto Bolaño's genius from his excess. 2666.jpg Roberto Bolano's novel 2666 is a turbulent structure. 10:28 am - 2666 by Roberto Bolaño 2666 is a massive novel, and it's translated from Spanish. When I read it, I will be completely absorbed by it. Bolaño's final novel, 2666, represents a sort of apotheosis of that dread. 2666 is a monstrous novel, in every conceivable way. Even the critical praise is monstrous, from the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award to Time's Best Fiction Book of the same year. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño For an 800-page, translated novel in five sections, 2666 is an unbelievable pleasure to read.