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2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano
Publisher: Picador

By Roberto Bolaño (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) $30. The question of whether 2666 is a total novel seems interesting enough for its own thread. Nowhere else is his writing more decadently sampled than with his major novels–”The Savage Detectives” and his magnum opus, “2666,” both translated from the original Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. Facetious, I know, but hey, I got through the book. I can imagine that as a book 2666 would present a huge challenge to me, because it's very testing in places. Bolaño's final novel, 2666, represents a sort of apotheosis of that dread. And the experience was generally positive. Poetry, on the other hand, was completely homosexual.” So begins Roberto Bolaño's final posthumous published novel, Woes of the True Policeman. Unlike our editor, Ligaya Mishan, I have yet to finish “2666” and probably won't before the month's end. €�”The Part About Fate,” 2666, p.348. Kevin Nguyen interviews Charlotte Strick, the designer of 2666's U.S. 2666 is the literary testament of the Latin-American writer--as he called himself--Roberto Bolaño. While a rose by any other name may well smell as sweet, the title of a book is most frequently inextricably linked to the nature and quality of the story contained within. Perhaps the only writer of international inter. You can't talk about 2666 without mentioning the book design. The novel's cryptic title is one of its many grim jokes; there is no reference to this figure in its 900 pages.