2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano
Publisher: Picador

Bolaño, in fact, when he realized he was dying (d. In the New York Times, Steven Millhauser recently wrote about the distinctions between the genre of the short story and the novel. What more is there to say about 2666? While I certainly don't take everything he says or writes as gospel, his distaste of Bolaño sours my enjoyment of the novel. Perhaps the first online group read of the novel was the "National Reading '2666' Month", a month-long reading by The New Yorker (The Book Bench) in January 2009. 2666, a novel by Chilean writer, Roberto Bolano, was published posthumously in 2004. ISBN: 0312429215,9780312429218 | 912 pages | 23 Mb. €”The Part About Fate,” 2666, p.348. Over the past 2 months, I've been reading Roberto Bolaño's encyclopedic novel 2666 in the spare minutes before bed. And the experience was generally positive. At 900 pages, it groans with ambition, knitting together five different novellas in a sprawling story spanning decades, continents and styles. Facetious, I know, but hey, I got through the book. 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. I can imagine that as a book 2666 would present a huge challenge to me, because it's very testing in places. The question of whether 2666 is a total novel seems interesting enough for its own thread. 2666 Roberto Bolaño´s novel 2666 takes off from five different airstrips and touches down in more locations than a Jason Bourne movie. 2666 by Roberto Bolano, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. Bolaño's final, posthumously published novel, 2666, is dominated by the void. 2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano Publisher: Picador.