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2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano
Publisher: Picador

2666 opens with a novel about four European literary critics, academics, who specialize in the work of a fictional German novelist, Benno von Archimboldi. 2666, a novel by Chilean writer, Roberto Bolano, was published posthumously in 2004. Perhaps the first online group read of the novel was the "National Reading '2666' Month", a month-long reading by The New Yorker (The Book Bench) in January 2009. 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. The English translation hits stores next Tuesday and the reviews couldn't be better, especially considering the book's 912 pages. My review of Roberto Bolaño's monumental posthumous novel 2666 should run on PopMatters sometime soon. 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 one of those novels which push the limits of the novel past its conventional size and scope, and its 893 pages of text definitely is one literary mammoth. The first thing I'll say is it took me a very long time to get through this book. And this is probably why, out of all the 'books' in 2666, I liked Book II best. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (2004) (translated from the spanish by Natasha Wimmer, 2008). 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). 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. 898 pages, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This is the issue that Roberto Bolano sets up in his novel 2666. A few weeks ago I said that I was considering doing the group read of Robert Bolano's novel 2666. It wasn't as if I had been dying to read it.