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2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano
Publisher: Picador

2666 Roberto Bolaño´s novel 2666 takes off from five different airstrips and touches down in more locations than a Jason Bourne movie. Roberto Bolaño's final novel 2666, released posthumously, is a sprawling literary tome. Since Bolaño's mind tends to work most powerfully in self-contained bursts (anecdotes, images, monologues) rather than in narrative continuity, skipping around is far less of a ño-ño than it would be in a traditional novel. Now, I like big books, but only big books that I like. It is clear that Bolaño's oeuvre builds towards 2666 and finds its fullest expression in it. Bolaño, in fact, when he realized he was dying (d. When #occupygaddis was proposed on Twitter, I posted it to Facebook, where Pat suggested that J.R. 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. But I know exactly when I read the first page of Roberto Bolaño's 2666. The bookmark that I use in my copy of 2666 is the Christmas card that my brother wrote to me when he gave me the book. Poetry, on the other hand, was completely homosexual.” So begins Roberto Bolaño's final posthumous published novel, Woes of the True Policeman. The best blogging experience of my first year at the practice is, by far, the group read of 2666. Either there are going to be a lot more posts on this one, or hardly any. And this is probably why, out of all the 'books' in 2666, I liked Book II best. Was all right and all, but if I wanted a real book, see, maybe I'd like to check out this Bolaño fellow with him.