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2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano
Publisher: Picador

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. It was reported that he was not completely finished writing or editing the novel at the time of his death. €�”The Part About Fate,” 2666, p.348. Roberto Bolaño died shortly after presenting the first draft of 2666 to his publisher, Anagrama. The reason I bought 2666 wasn't because I knew I was getting stomach flu, but because of my occasional worry that I'm too old to experience a new novel as a masterpiece. Other Details: Trade Paperback. 2666 opens with a novel about four European literary critics, academics, who specialize in the work of a fictional German novelist, Benno von Archimboldi. English Translation by Natasha Wimmer, 2008. 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. The question of whether 2666 is a total novel seems interesting enough for its own thread. Over the past 2 months, I've been reading Roberto Bolaño's encyclopedic novel 2666 in the spare minutes before bed. Roberto Bolaño's 2666 is an obsessive and world-shifting epic. This is the issue that Roberto Bolano sets up in his novel 2666. Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives took the literary world by storm, and his latest posthumous release, 2666, is five times as long and ten times as ambitious. 2666.jpg Roberto Bolano's novel 2666 is a turbulent structure. When I read it, I will be completely absorbed by it.