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2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano
Publisher: Picador

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. Over the past 2 months, I've been reading Roberto Bolaño's encyclopedic novel 2666 in the spare minutes before bed. Shanghai private library 2666 Shanghai wordsmith Sun Ganlu (孙甘露) dives into a novel at 2666. I'd say further, among many other attributes, that both novels offer nice examples of viable political fiction, contrary to certain claims. Other Details: Trade Paperback. 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. Chilean author Roberto Bolaño left behind a surfeit of unfinished manuscripts after his death, but nothing was more intriguing than a reported sixth part of 2666, his bestselling magnum opus. 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. Namely, Bolaño's wish was for 2666 to be published in separate volumes, one per year ( I believe). I'd say 2666 stands with the very short By Night in Chile as the best of these. You can't talk about 2666 without mentioning the book design. Since Bolaño's mind tends to work most powerfully in self-contained bursts (anecdotes, images, monologues) rather than in narrative continuity, skipping around is far less of a ño-ño than it would be in a traditional novel. 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. Kevin Nguyen interviews Charlotte Strick, the designer of 2666's U.S. At 900 pages, it groans with ambition, knitting together five different novellas in a sprawling story spanning decades, continents and styles. English Translation by Natasha Wimmer, 2008.