2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano

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

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments. I'd say further, among many other attributes, that both novels offer nice examples of viable political fiction, contrary to certain claims. Chilean author Roberto Bolano posthumously won the National Book Critics Circle award Thursday night for the English translation of his 912-page novel 2666. No, I didn't buy 2,666 Brussels sprouts. I have very little patience for books I'm not enjoying and I have no reluctance to put a book down forever if I'm not getting "pleasure"* from it. When Roberto Bolaño, a Chilean writer seemingly destine for a Nobel Prize had he not passed away so unjustly at the age of 50, chose to use Detroit as a setting in his near-universally acclaimed final novel 2666. I'd say 2666 stands with the very short By Night in Chile as the best of these. Now that I have that distance, no tangible perspective has come other than this: nothing else I've read since has been 2666. July 22, 2009 @ 10:27 pm · Filed under Recipes · Tags:books; fictional cooking; veggies. What I did was read a book with 2,666 pages. If the streets of Santa Teresa and the style of 2666 are anarchic and the epigraph refers to our corrosive modernity and its abuses of freedom and desires, then we can anticipate an even more sprawling post-modern novel. The book is huge, almost 1,000 pages. He completed its first draft shortly before his death in 2004. No other book has done to me what 2666 did. In his post “Castle Dracula” at Infinite Zombies, Daryl L. Part of my four-day holiday weekend has been spent thinking about Roberto Bolaño's 2666. The review of Bolaño's novel 2666, the part about Amalfitano (which is shorter than the first installment). 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. Unlike our editor, Ligaya Mishan, I have yet to finish “2666” and probably won't before the month's end. He was still working on it when he died in 2003. But I know exactly when I read the first page of Roberto Bolaño's 2666.