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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  irunsjh | Dec 18, 2009 |  Read this book, immediately. (  ) ggoes | Nov 27, 2009 | My work peeps are gushing about this. Gushing, I tell you.  catalogthis | Nov 24, 2009 | This novel is thoroughly brilliant, puzzling, elusive, fantastic, and full of such life and energy and love of literature itself. It's infectious. It makes you read all over new again, to see the life in the pages you missed before. It's indelible in both a phenomenal and a horrible way -- confronting you with the despicable iniquity in "Santa Teresa" in a form that's ultimately going to be inadequate to confront. Bolaño was without a doubt the finest living writer before he died, and this book may just be the finest novel of the decade I've read (presuming we count "The Savage Detectives" as the 1990s, where it'd duke out the title with "Infinite Jest." Only a very few writers change how I look at novels--Melville, Wallace, McCarthy -- and Bolaño is one of them. ( )1  gwalklin | Nov 21, 2009 | The opening fourth of this epic work alone prove Bolaño to be worthy of all the praise and accolades, most which have unfortunately come posthumously. This work is even more masterful than 'The Savage Detectives', which is a powerful novel in its own right. This book will be remembered as one of the great works of the 21st century and indeed as one of the great literary achievements of all time. Bolaño breaks all the rules here - long sentences, long paragraphs, lots of meandering side stories - but he keeps it all together. It works. It works magically. ( ) inaudible | Nov 6, 2009 | 
 Roberto Bolaño »Wie ein bekiffter Zuhälter« Das Vermächtnis: Roberto Bolaños Roman »2666« ist ein Meilenstein der literarischen Evolution Der Schriftsteller Roberto Bolaño stilisierte sich als Outlaw und blieb bis zu seinem Tod 2003 ein Geheimtipp. Sein Roman "2666" erscheint nun auf Deutsch. Ein Meisterwerk. Ein James Dean war er nicht Jetzt ist Bolaños Meisterwerk "2666" auf Deutsch erschienen. Übersetzt wurde auch der Mythos um einen Autor, den es jenseits der wilden Legenden zu entdecken gibt The work of Bolaño, the Chilean poet and novelist who died in 2003 at the age 50 from liver disease and would now be enjoying literary superstar status if fate had been kinder, is particularly explosive for those who read it in English, since so much of it has been translated in such a short time. Last year “The Savage Detectives” (which, like “2666,” has been translated with wonderful agility by Natasha Wimmer) catapulted him from obscurity to worshipful adulation. And that book seems modest compared with “2666.” “2666” is as consummate a performance as any 900-page novel dare hope to be: Bolaño won the race to the finish line in writing what he plainly intended, in his self-interrogating way, as a master statement. Indeed, he produced not only a supreme capstone to his own vaulting ambition, but a landmark in what’s possible for the novel as a form in our increasingly, and terrifyingly, post-national world
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0374100144, Hardcover)THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM “ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS” (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño’s life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of SantaTeresa—a fictional Juárez—on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:57 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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This part was very interesting. I was interested in there lives, as well as there relationships. I am looking forward into how this part plays into the grander whole of the book. Overall quite enjoyable, and encouraged me to move forward with the book
Part 2 - The part about Amalfitano
I am not sure how this part fits into the grander whole. I was less satisfied with this part, because I did not a fan of the character, or lack there of, for Amalfitano. This part seemed to spend more time with everyone else then with him. I am not sure how his wife, or the deans son fit into this section, but again I am moving on to see how the bigger picture will play out.
Part 3 - The part about Fate
I like this part a lot. I like the voice that Bolano was able to give to Fate. I enjoyed reading about his time in Saint Terresa, and the boxing match. I did not expect the results of that match, but it was a very well written boxing match. I think this section had the best lead into the next. I am curious to see what will happen next in Saint Terresa.
Part 4 - The part about the crimes
Part 5 - The part about Archimboldi