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2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano

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

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. Facetious, I know, but hey, I got through the book. And the experience was generally positive. Roberto Bolaño's final novel 2666, released posthumously, is a sprawling literary tome. 2666, a novel by Chilean writer, Roberto Bolano, was published posthumously in 2004. "You could say 2666 is the epic novel that Borges never wrote. 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. I can imagine that as a book 2666 would present a huge challenge to me, because it's very testing in places. In the New York Times, Steven Millhauser recently wrote about the distinctions between the genre of the short story and the novel. As I was reading the passage in Bolaño's novel 2666 on page 40 through 41 I was reminded of the article from the New York Times we read last week entitled, “Analyzing Literature and Words by Numbers”. It is clear that Bolaño's oeuvre builds towards 2666 and finds its fullest expression in it. 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. A few weeks ago I said that I was considering doing the group read of Robert Bolano's novel 2666. It wasn't as if I had been dying to read it.