2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolano

2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano ebook
ISBN: 0312429215, 9780312429218
Page: 912
Publisher: Picador
Format: epub

Kevin Nguyen interviews Charlotte Strick, the designer of 2666's U.S. More than a month ago I began reading Roberto Bolaño's 2666, I suppose on a lark. You can't talk about 2666 without mentioning the book design. Bolaño, in fact, when he realized he was dying (d. By Roberto Bolaño (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) $30. "You could say 2666 is the epic novel that Borges never wrote. 2666 Roberto Bolaño´s novel 2666 takes off from five different airstrips and touches down in more locations than a Jason Bourne movie. I'd say 2666 stands with the very short By Night in Chile as the best of these. I'd say further, among many other attributes, that both novels offer nice examples of viable political fiction, contrary to certain claims. 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. At 900 pages, it groans with ambition, knitting together five different novellas in a sprawling story spanning decades, continents and styles.