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2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano
Publisher: Picador

Several days ago, I came out with a rather clumsy post (mostly written during my lunch break) comparing "The Part About Archimboldi" to a novel by Jakov Lind called Landscape in Concrete. But I know exactly when I read the first page of Roberto Bolaño's 2666. No, I didn't buy 2,666 Brussels sprouts. This is the issue that Roberto Bolano sets up in his novel 2666. What I did was read a book with 2,666 pages. 2666 is a detective novel featuring a character from Savage Detectives as the narrator. While I certainly don't take everything he says or writes as gospel, his distaste of Bolaño sours my enjoyment of the novel. 2666.jpg Roberto Bolano's novel 2666 is a turbulent structure. The bookmark that I use in my copy of 2666 is the Christmas card that my brother wrote to me when he gave me the book. He worked on his novel 2666 until his last days, which was finally published in 2004 after his death. Namely, Bolaño's wish was for 2666 to be published in separate volumes, one per year ( I believe). In his post “Castle Dracula” at Infinite Zombies, Daryl L. July 22, 2009 @ 10:27 pm · Filed under Recipes · Tags:books; fictional cooking; veggies. 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).