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2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano
Publisher: Picador

Published a year after his death and translated into English a few more years later, it is an enormous book that defies summary. The English translation hits stores next Tuesday and the reviews couldn't be better, especially considering the book's 912 pages. Roberto Bolaño's final novel 2666, released posthumously, is a sprawling literary tome. When I read it, I will be completely absorbed by it. Roberto Bolaño's 2666 is an obsessive and world-shifting epic. Unlike our editor, Ligaya Mishan, I have yet to finish “2666” and probably won't before the month's end. I have very little patience for books I'm not enjoying and I have no reluctance to put a book down forever if I'm not getting "pleasure"* from it. The wide ranging geography and time frame of 2666 defy easy summary. As I was reading the passage in Bolaño's novel 2666 on page 40 through 41 I was reminded of the article from the New York Times we read last week entitled, “Analyzing Literature and Words by Numbers”. 2666 is Roberto Bolano's master statement. 2666 is a novel written by Roberto Bolaño and published posthumously in Spanish in 2004. The reason I bought 2666 wasn't because I knew I was getting stomach flu, but because of my occasional worry that I'm too old to experience a new novel as a masterpiece. By Roberto Bolaño (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) $30. For the past week, I have been walking around, trying to think of what — finally — to say about Roberto Bolaño's novel, 2666. You can't talk about 2666 without mentioning the book design. Kevin Nguyen interviews Charlotte Strick, the designer of 2666's U.S.