The novel is really five novellas, thematically tied. Composed in the last years of roberto bolanos life, 2666 was greeted across europe and latin america as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. The savage detectives is a hilarious and sexy, meandering and melancholy, companionable and complicated road trip through mexico city, barcelona, israel, liberia, and finally the desert of northern mexico. Narrated by various narrators, john lee, armando duran, g. Go with bolano s drift, surrender to the dream youve woken up into here and take in all the sights and sensations the way you would somewhat sleepily from your windows perch on a guided tour bus through hell. Go with bolano s drift, surrender to the dream youve woken up into here and take in all the sights and sensations the way you would somewhat sleepily from your. I continue to love listening to my audio books and really enuoyu this app.
Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. A chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship. One thing a novel like this lets us do is to live the many lives rimbaud suggested were due to each. Chileanborn writer roberto bolano, pictured in 1999. Reading 2666, reading any of his works, you feel as if he sat down and what came out came out, as if youre reading a work right from his mind. Go with bolano s drift, surrender to the dream youve woken up into here and take in all the sights and sensations the way you would somewhat sleepily from your windows perch. Between parentheses collects most of the newspaper columns and articles bolano wrote during the last five years of his life, as well as the texts. Avoid 2666 for as long as possible, and for heavens sake, dont start with it. Composed in the last years of roberto bolanos 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. Written under the specter of his own death, roberto bolano s 2666 is a statement of the capacity of cruelty that resides in the darkest heart of humanity.
Valmont thomas narrator, scott brick narrator, grover gardner narrator, blackstone audio. The star of roberto bolano s hairraising novel distant star is alberto ruiztagle, an air. His novella distant star is about a poet who is a serial killer, and in the final section of 2666, which returns to archimboldi, a link. Get 50% off this audiobook at the audiobooksnow online audio book store and download or stream it right to your computer, smartphone or tablet. The 898 pages of 2666 are divided into five parts, and it will give you some idea of the book s tone, rigorously literary and ridiculously informal at. The book is a desert of negative space across which the panting reader will search in vain.