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2666: A Novel
THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM ?ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS? (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño?s life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of SantaTeresa?a fictional Juárez?on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared. more
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- Posted: Jan-28-2009
The end of something great.
2666 was my first experience with Bolano. I read about this book in a Time magazine and was very intrigued.Upon opening the box and seeing the book, my heart sank a little. Seeing a book of this size is always intimidating, and even though I know it was 900+ pages, seeing 900 pages bound in...
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- Posted: Jan-27-2009
Astonishing
I was initially reticent about reading this book because I struggled through The Savage Detectives, which was maddeningly abstruse. Not being familiar with esoteric Spanish/Mexican literati, much of its sly wit escaped me. But I was willing to engage myself in Bolano's final masterpiece because...
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- Posted: Jan-26-2009
Towering, magisterial epic
To try to summarise Roberto Bolaño's "2666: A novel" in less than the 900-odd pages in which the book itself unfolds amounts to a more or less futile exercise, so I will not even try! Published posthumously in this English-language translation in a single volume (in contravention of the...
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- Posted: Jan-25-2009
Emperor's New Clothes
Extremely disappointing. Notwithstanding all of the literary praise and hype, this novel (if it can be called that) simply does not deliver on a storytelling or intellectual level. It is a pointless study of odd obsessions and the meaningless of life. The principal characters have few if any...
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- Posted: Jan-20-2009
Bolaño's Irony
In early reviews of the book, the reviewers--probably because of hasty readings--dwell on the obvious: Part 4 and the serial killings in Mexico. Also the title, that mysterious date, seems to draw like attention. While these are worthy points of interest, I suspect they are part of Roberto...
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- Posted: Jan-19-2009
Engrossing, disturbing, an amazing authorial feat
Don't read this book before sleeping. Like the characters it chronicles, you'll receive disturbing violent dreams. This was the best book I've read in a few years. Haunting, raunchy, violent, funny, at times light and airy, at times heavier than one can bear.
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- Posted: Jan-19-2009
Meeting expectations
I'm now reading 2666 and if it weren't so heavy, I would have gobbled it up much faster. The story is compelling and his style is savvy. I can't wait to read more.
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- Posted: Jan-19-2009
we should be grateful to have it, but this is an UNFINISHED work
the fact is that to suggest that bolaño "finished" this book is basically untrue. he finished the first draft a wildly complex and ambitious 1,000+ page novel a matter of weeks before he died. extraordinarily few published writers would say that having completed a first draft, even of a short...
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- Posted: Jan-13-2009
Literature Insight
It is an excellent book to understand the lives of artists and the faculty involved in the arts. It spans the globe with modern problems and lives in transition. Bolano makes the world in this work of fiction seem current and real.
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- Posted: Jan-13-2009
2666 - A novel
This was given as a gift, but the recipient says that it is an outstanding book and sure to become a classic.
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