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2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano
Publisher: Picador

I'd say 2666 stands with the very short By Night in Chile as the best of these. Part of my four-day holiday weekend has been spent thinking about Roberto Bolaño's 2666. 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. I'd say further, among many other attributes, that both novels offer nice examples of viable political fiction, contrary to certain claims. He worked on his novel 2666 until his last days, which was finally published in 2004 after his death. 2666 is a detective novel featuring a character from Savage Detectives as the narrator. As I was reading the passage in Bolaño's novel 2666 on page 40 through 41 I was reminded of the article from the New York Times we read last week entitled, “Analyzing Literature and Words by Numbers”. You can't talk about 2666 without mentioning the book design. He was still working on it when he died in 2003. The book is huge, almost 1,000 pages. Roberto Bolaño's final novel 2666, released posthumously, is a sprawling literary tome. Kevin Nguyen interviews Charlotte Strick, the designer of 2666's U.S. 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.