2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano
Publisher: Picador

ISBN: 0312429215,9780312429218 | 912 pages | 23 Mb. Published a year after his death and translated into English a few more years later, it is an enormous book that defies summary. 2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano Publisher: Picador. Not every writer would write a novel in the form of a completely invented encyclopaedia of imaginary writers and call the result Nazi Literature in the Americas. 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”. 2666 is one of those novels which push the limits of the novel past its conventional size and scope, and its 893 pages of text definitely is one literary mammoth. Bolaño's final, posthumously published novel, 2666, is dominated by the void. The novel's cryptic title is one of its many grim jokes; there is no reference to this figure in its 900 pages. "You could say 2666 is the epic novel that Borges never wrote. 2666 is Roberto Bolano's master statement. Bolaño, in fact, when he realized he was dying (d. 2666, a novel by Chilean writer, Roberto Bolano, was published posthumously in 2004. 2666 Roberto Bolaño´s novel 2666 takes off from five different airstrips and touches down in more locations than a Jason Bourne movie.