5/9/2023 0 Comments 2666 by bolano![]() ![]() “In the literary culture of the United States, Bolaño has become a talismanic figure seemingly overnight. Jonathan Lethem’s review in the New York Timesadds a bit more detail for anyone on the fence about whether to read along with us this season or not: pretty succinct for an almost 900 page book. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of Santa Teresa-a fictional Juárez-on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.” Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. “Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño’s life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. ![]() 2666 has been a potential TMR title right from the jump and now, years after launching this podcast, we’re finally going to tackle one of the most discussed and admired works of Latin American literature of the past century, translated by Natasha Wimmer: ![]()
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