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2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano

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

The book is huge, almost 1,000 pages. Part of my four-day holiday weekend has been spent thinking about Roberto Bolaño's 2666. Calling Roberto Bolano's 2666 a novel is somewhat misleading. This is the issue that Roberto Bolano sets up in his novel 2666. Now that I have that distance, no tangible perspective has come other than this: nothing else I've read since has been 2666. He completed its first draft shortly before his death in 2004. He was still working on it when he died in 2003. The first thing I'll say is it took me a very long time to get through this book. Every book that isn't a masterpiece is cannon fodder, a slogging foot soldier, a piece to be sacrificed, since in multiple ways it mimics the design of the masterpiece. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (2004) (translated from the spanish by Natasha Wimmer, 2008). 898 pages, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. What more is there to say about 2666? 2666 by Roberto Bolano, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. Certainly, it bears many attributes of a work of long fiction – memorable characters, richly evoked locations, abundant action, recurrent themes. Chilean author Roberto Bolano posthumously won the National Book Critics Circle award Thursday night for the English translation of his 912-page novel 2666. No other book has done to me what 2666 did.