2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano
Publisher: Picador

The review of Bolaño's novel 2666, the part about Amalfitano (which is shorter than the first installment). 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”. Either there are going to be a lot more posts on this one, or hardly any. Even the critical praise is monstrous, from the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award to Time's Best Fiction Book of the same year. 2666 is a monstrous novel, in every conceivable way. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments. It is clear that Bolaño's oeuvre builds towards 2666 and finds its fullest expression in it. 2666, a novel by Chilean writer, Roberto Bolano, was published posthumously in 2004. My review of Roberto Bolaño's monumental posthumous novel 2666 should run on PopMatters sometime soon. Now, I like big books, but only big books that I like. Kevin Nguyen interviews Charlotte Strick, the designer of 2666's U.S. You can't talk about 2666 without mentioning the book design.