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2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano

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

In the New York Times, Steven Millhauser recently wrote about the distinctions between the genre of the short story and the novel. In the first section of Bolano's 2666, the academics have Archembolo's books in common. Calling Roberto Bolano's 2666 a novel is somewhat misleading. 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. That is the basis for their connection. The best blogging experience of my first year at the practice is, by far, the group read of 2666. 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. Roberto Bolaño died shortly after presenting the first draft of 2666 to his publisher, Anagrama. It was reported that he was not completely finished writing or editing the novel at the time of his death. 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. By Roberto Bolaño (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) $30. 2666 is one of those novels which push the limits of the novel past its conventional size and scope, and its 893 pages of text definitely is one literary mammoth. Bolaño's final novel, 2666, represents a sort of apotheosis of that dread. Certainly, it bears many attributes of a work of long fiction – memorable characters, richly evoked locations, abundant action, recurrent themes.