2666: A Novel. Roberto Bolano

2666: A Novel


2666.A.Novel.pdf
ISBN: 0312429215,9780312429218 | 912 pages | 23 Mb


Download 2666: A Novel



2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano
Publisher: Picador




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. Over the past 2 months, I've been reading Roberto Bolaño's encyclopedic novel 2666 in the spare minutes before bed. It was reported that he was not completely finished writing or editing the novel at the time of his death. Roberto Bolaño died shortly after presenting the first draft of 2666 to his publisher, Anagrama. Now, I like big books, but only big books that I like. I think it's worth the commitment of time and attention, and I haven't read any reviews from any of my friends. The reason I bought 2666 wasn't because I knew I was getting stomach flu, but because of my occasional worry that I'm too old to experience a new novel as a masterpiece. Either there are going to be a lot more posts on this one, or hardly any. The first thing I'll say is it took me a very long time to get through this book. Santa Teresa, in the state of Sonora, on the Mexican-U.S. 898 pages, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. According to his heirs, Roberto Bolaño left instructions that his final work, 2666, should be published as five separate novels, each corresponding to one of the sections of the book as it appears today. 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. It is clear that Bolaño's oeuvre builds towards 2666 and finds its fullest expression in it. Bolaño's final novel, 2666, represents a sort of apotheosis of that dread. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (2004) (translated from the spanish by Natasha Wimmer, 2008). 10:28 am - 2666 by Roberto Bolaño 2666 is a massive novel, and it's translated from Spanish.