2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano
Publisher: Picador

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. Nowhere else is his writing more decadently sampled than with his major novels–”The Savage Detectives” and his magnum opus, “2666,” both translated from the original Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. Other Details: Trade Paperback. A few weeks ago I said that I was considering doing the group read of Robert Bolano's novel 2666. That is the basis for their connection. English Translation by Natasha Wimmer, 2008. The book is huge, almost 1,000 pages. I'm about 600 pages into Roberto Bolaño's 2666 –a book that is both horrible and hypnotic, one of the few Bolaño works I've been able to finish (Amuleto was the other one). He was still working on it when he died in 2003. It is clear that Bolaño's oeuvre builds towards 2666 and finds its fullest expression in it. I'd say further, among many other attributes, that both novels offer nice examples of viable political fiction, contrary to certain claims. In the first section of Bolano's 2666, the academics have Archembolo's books in common. Even the critical praise is monstrous, from the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award to Time's Best Fiction Book of the same year. 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. Bolaño, in fact, when he realized he was dying (d. I'd say 2666 stands with the very short By Night in Chile as the best of these. Part of my four-day holiday weekend has been spent thinking about Roberto Bolaño's 2666. 2666 is a monstrous novel, in every conceivable way. It wasn't as if I had been dying to read it. 2666 Roberto Bolaño´s novel 2666 takes off from five different airstrips and touches down in more locations than a Jason Bourne movie.