2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano

2666: A Novel



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


He worked on his novel 2666 until his last days, which was finally published in 2004 after his death. My review of Roberto Bolaño's monumental posthumous novel 2666 should run on PopMatters sometime soon. Chilean author Roberto Bolano posthumously won the National Book Critics Circle award Thursday night for the English translation of his 912-page novel 2666. 2666 is a detective novel featuring a character from Savage Detectives as the narrator. Perhaps the first online group read of the novel was the "National Reading '2666' Month", a month-long reading by The New Yorker (The Book Bench) in January 2009. But I know exactly when I read the first page of Roberto Bolaño's 2666. He completed its first draft shortly before his death in 2004. 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. In the second section of 2666, Bolano moves away from the “academic novel” of the critics (and reality as we know it) and delves into the polarities of the known and the unknown, truth vs. 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).