6/19/2023 0 Comments 2666 roberto bolaño review![]() For the last few years (the years after Bolano’s death it should be said), New York has taken Bolano to its collective breast and made a cause celebre of him. It wasn’t until the publication of his penultimate novel, though, The Savage Detectives, that New York, in particular, started to pay attention. As a young man, he kickstarted a Latin American literary movement which he then abandoned as others took up the mantle, choosing instead to roam the world, from menial job to menial job, writing in the evenings, battling with illness and (according to the apparently erroneous legend) drug addiction. Roberto Bolano is perceived in some quarters as a kind of revolutionary. ![]() Certainly, if reviews were ever to serve as fuel for that gearing up, the level of hyperbole currently directed towards 2666 would help you, would maybe even power you through the first book.īut let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Given that the book is as I write this at number 4 in the best seller lists, it may be you already own a copy, have it placed somewhere on your bedside table, are gearing yourself up for the task of reading it. ![]() There are not many books that will have you gasping with wonder one moment and flicking ahead to see how long the horror will last the next fewer still that have you weighing the book like a bag of apples, caught between tossing the thing as hard as you can at the nearest wall and getting down on all fours to treat the thing like some kind of chunky prayer mat. ![]()
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