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2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano
Publisher: Picador

Kevin Nguyen interviews Charlotte Strick, the designer of 2666's U.S. When I read it, I will be completely absorbed by it. No other book has done to me what 2666 did. Even the critical praise is monstrous, from the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award to Time's Best Fiction Book of the same year. 2666 is a novel written by Roberto Bolaño and published posthumously in Spanish in 2004. In the New York Times, Steven Millhauser recently wrote about the distinctions between the genre of the short story and the novel. 2666 is a monstrous novel, in every conceivable way. Reading "2666", "it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish Roberto Bolaño's genius from his excess. Roberto Bolaño's 2666 is an obsessive and world-shifting epic. 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. While I certainly don't take everything he says or writes as gospel, his distaste of Bolaño sours my enjoyment of the novel. 10:28 am - 2666 by Roberto Bolaño 2666 is a massive novel, and it's translated from Spanish. The English translation hits stores next Tuesday and the reviews couldn't be better, especially considering the book's 912 pages. It was reported that he was not completely finished writing or editing the novel at the time of his death. I'm about 600 pages into Roberto Bolaño's 2666 –a book that is both horrible and hypnotic, one of the few Bolaño works I've been able to finish (Amuleto was the other one). I think it's worth the commitment of time and attention, and I haven't read any reviews from any of my friends. Roberto Bolaño died shortly after presenting the first draft of 2666 to his publisher, Anagrama. You can't talk about 2666 without mentioning the book design. 2666.jpg Roberto Bolano's novel 2666 is a turbulent structure. And this is probably why, out of all the 'books' in 2666, I liked Book II best. Now that I have that distance, no tangible perspective has come other than this: nothing else I've read since has been 2666.