2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano

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

Either there are going to be a lot more posts on this one, or hardly any. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (2004) (translated from the spanish by Natasha Wimmer, 2008). I'd say further, among many other attributes, that both novels offer nice examples of viable political fiction, contrary to certain claims. English Translation by Natasha Wimmer, 2008. Other Details: Trade Paperback. Now, I like big books, but only big books that I like. While I certainly don't take everything he says or writes as gospel, his distaste of Bolaño sours my enjoyment of the novel. Bolaño's final novel, 2666, represents a sort of apotheosis of that dread. 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. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño For an 800-page, translated novel in five sections, 2666 is an unbelievable pleasure to read. Even the critical praise is monstrous, from the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award to Time's Best Fiction Book of the same year. The first thing I'll say is it took me a very long time to get through this book. I'd say 2666 stands with the very short By Night in Chile as the best of these. 2666 is a monstrous novel, in every conceivable way. 898 pages, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2666 is the literary testament of the Latin-American writer--as he called himself--Roberto Bolaño. Perhaps the only writer of international inter. This is as good a notion as any when thinking about Roberto Bolaño's monstrous novel 2666.