Roberto bolano 2666 review5/12/2023 ![]() Which makes sense, since he was dying while he wrote it. ![]() Whether one distracts oneself focused on the ludicrously esoteric (the part about the critics), or by living through one's child (The Part about Amalfitano), or by allowing oneself to be carried up on the chaos of events (The Part about Fate), or by hovering close to the edge of death itself and living within its shadow (The Part about the Crimes), or by ccupying oneself with the act of narration (The Part about Archimboldi), I think BolaƱo wrote a book about the ways people put off death. For me, it was mostly a story about death and the humorous, tragic, poignant or obsessive strategies we use to put it off. I'm not going to bother with a synopsis, because other reviewers have done this, but it moves from quirky, cosy satire to grim documentary realism to modern historical fiction. Although the meta-narrative voice stays true, its five parts each offer a very different narrative style. There are truly great things about this book. What you make of that excess of detail then determines whether you are a literary reader or not. Someone, I don't know who it was, said that the difference between a piece of genre fiction and a literary novel is that, in literary novels, the author gives you far more detail than you need as a reader. ![]()
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