2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano

2666: A Novel



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


Chilean author Roberto Bolano posthumously won the National Book Critics Circle award Thursday night for the English translation of his 912-page novel 2666. 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. 2666 is a monstrous novel, in every conceivable way. He completed its first draft shortly before his death in 2004. 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. I can imagine that as a book 2666 would present a huge challenge to me, because it's very testing in places. When #occupygaddis was proposed on Twitter, I posted it to Facebook, where Pat suggested that J.R. And the experience was generally positive. Even the critical praise is monstrous, from the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award to Time's Best Fiction Book of the same year. Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives took the literary world by storm, and his latest posthumous release, 2666, is five times as long and ten times as ambitious. Facetious, I know, but hey, I got through the book. 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.