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2666 : A Novel by Roberto Bolaño (2009, CD Mp3)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBlackstone Audio, Incorporated
ISBN-101433279517
ISBN-139781433279515
eBay Product ID (ePID)71974327
Product Key Features
TopicLiterary, Mystery & Detective / General
Book Title2666 :A Novel
Publication Year2009
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorRoberto Bolaño
FormatCD Mp3
Dimensions
Item Length7.5 In.
Item Width5.3 In.
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Reviews[A] work of huge importance...a complex literary experience, in which the author seeks to set down his nightmares while he feels time running out., [ 2666 ] is divided into five books, each read here by a different narrator, each in his way extraordinary. John Lee is especially subtle with accents, Armando Durán brings his mostly Spanish-flavored section to vivid life, G. Valmont Thomas lends 'The Part about Fate' a deadpan humor, and Grover Gardner gives the saga of the writer Benno von Archimboldi a compelling pace. Scott Brick['s] characters' voices are outstanding., A display of novelistic mastery and as devastating a reading experience as you are likely ever to encounter., On every page the reader marvels, hypnotized, at the capacity of this baroque writer to encompass all literary genres in a single fascinating, enigmatic story...It is a fully realized work by a pure genius at the height of his powers., The book explores evil with irony, without any theory or resolution, relying on storytelling alone as its saving grace...Each story is an adventure: a fresco at once horrifying, delicate, grotesque, redundant, and absurd, revealed by the flashlight of a child who stands at the threshold of a cave he will never leave., Bolaño grabs us by the scruff of the neck and pushes our heads into the abyss. For Bolaño, the year 2666 is the symbolic culmination of humanity's neglect and violence, a state of being that has become our modus operandi ...That, Bolaño suggests, is where it all starts: at the very spot where we stop paying attention and slip into deadened stasis., To say that 2666 is a novel is like calling a Beethoven symphony a collection of songs. If we must, though, this novel in five parts is without doubt Roberto Bolaño's masterwork, epic in scope, labyrinthine, frustrating, disjointed, maybe a bit pretentious, always somewhat aloof--and brilliant., It is safe to predict that no novel this year will have as powerful an effect on the reader as this one., Think of David Lynch, Marcel Duchamp, and the Bob Dylan of 'Highway 61 Revisited,' all at the peak of their lucid yet hallucinatory powers., One of those strange, exquisite, and astonishing experiences that literature offers us only once in a very long time.
Dewey Decimal863.7
Edition DescriptionUnabridged edition
SynopsisComposed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his most brilliant achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strange beauty, daring experimentation, and epic scope. The book's subject matter ranges from the heady heights of literature and love to the gritty realism of violence and death as it explores how humans make sense of senseless events. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, writers and cops, pursuing their own separate yet interrelated quests for meaning: an enigmatic Prussian novelist who disappears from the public eye after the death of his lover; a group of literary critics who bond through their shared love of the novelist's works; an African American journalist sent to Mexico on a sports beat in the wake of his mother's death; and a Spanish professor and widowed father whose mind is beginning to lose its grip on reality. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of Santa Teresa, a fictional Juárez on the US-Mexico border, where the serial killings of hundreds of young working class women remain unsolved., Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolano's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his most brilliant achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strange beauty, daring experimentation, and epic scope. The book's subject matter ranges from the heady heights of literature and love to the gritty realism of violence and death as it explores how humans make sense of senseless events. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, writers and cops, pursuing their own separate yet interrelated quests for meaning: an enigmatic Prussian novelist who disappears from the public eye after the death of his lover; a group of literary critics who bond through their shared love of the novelist's works; an African American journalist sent to Mexico on a sports beat in the wake of his mother's death; and a Spanish professor and widowed father whose mind is beginning to lose its grip on reality. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of Santa Teresa, a fictional Juarez on the US-Mexico border, where the serial killings of hundreds of young working class women remain unsolved.
Number of Pages3 pages
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