Bolano Creates Posthumous Sensation With Novel of Art, Murder

[Brock Vond]

I'm almost done 2666 and will probably just start reading it again  
right away... it's sooo fantastic.

If anyone doesn't know... I would imagine most people do...  the  
murders in the book are based on a real, and still unsolved, crime  
wave in Mexcio.  The fact he pays homage and gives a voice to these  
women - many of the deaths are based on real murders (if not all  
maybe? either way i know of several that are though) - in this way...  
its very touching and, for lack of my ability to think of something  
better to say... very very cool.

I can't recommend it enough.

On Dec 22, 2008, at 6:47 AM, Otto wrote:

> Vier Wissenschaftler auf dem Weg zur Hölle
> Von Hannes Stein - 22. Dezember 2008, 02:02 Uhr
>
> Wie der lateinamerikanische Schriftsteller Roberto Bolano mit dem
> Tausend-Seiten-Roman "2666" zum Liebling der US-Kritik wird
> (...)
> Der Roman mündet in eine Vision vom kriegsverwüsteten Europa, die (so
> Francine Prose) zum Teil von der Geschichte inspiriert sei, zum Teil
> von Thomas Pynchon, zum Teil auch von Stanley Kubrick - am meisten
> aber von Roberto Bolano selbst.
>
> http://www.welt.de/welt_print/article2915843/Vier-Wissenschaftler-auf-dem-Weg-zur-Hoelle.html
>
>
> 2008/11/10 Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>:
>> Bolano Creates Posthumous Sensation With Novel of Art, Murder
>> Review by Craig Seligman
>> (...)
>> On the other hand, ``2666'' could be an exemplary novel for a world
>> inundated with information but desperately short on analysis.
>> Brutality, blankness -- is this the mirror of our age?
>>
>> http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aUEiY8Fijbr0
>>
>