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. Unlike our editor, Ligaya Mishan, I have yet to finish “2666” and probably won't before the month's end. I'd say further, among many other attributes, that both novels offer nice examples of viable political fiction, contrary to certain claims. Namely, Bolaño's wish was for 2666 to be published in separate volumes, one per year ( I believe). 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. The book is huge, almost 1,000 pages. Santa Teresa, in the state of Sonora, on the Mexican-U.S. In the New York Times, Steven Millhauser recently wrote about the distinctions between the genre of the short story and the novel. By Roberto Bolaño (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) $30. He was still working on it when he died in 2003. 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”. What I did was read a book with 2,666 pages. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño For an 800-page, translated novel in five sections, 2666 is an unbelievable pleasure to read. No, I didn't buy 2,666 Brussels sprouts. 2666, a novel by Chilean writer, Roberto Bolano, was published posthumously in 2004. Every book that isn't a masterpiece is cannon fodder, a slogging foot soldier, a piece to be sacrificed, since in multiple ways it mimics the design of the masterpiece. July 22, 2009 @ 10:27 pm · Filed under Recipes · Tags:books; fictional cooking; veggies. Part of my four-day holiday weekend has been spent thinking about Roberto Bolaño's 2666.