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Bridal Shop USA - 2666
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Manufacturer: Anagrama
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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9788433973184
ISBN: 8433973185
Label: Anagrama
Manufacturer: Anagrama
Number Of Pages: 1126
Publication Date: 2008-03-01
Publisher: Anagrama
Studio: Anagrama
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A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinacion por la obra de Beno von Archimboldi, un enigmatico escritor aleman cuyo prestigio crece en todo el mundo. La complicidad se vuelve vodevil intelectual y desemboca en un peregrinaje a Santa Teresa (trasunto de Ciudad Juarez), donde hay quien dice que Archimboldi ha sido visto. Ya alli, Pelletier y Espinoza se enteran de que la ciudad es desde anos atras escenario de una larga cadena de crimenes: en los vertederos aparecen cadaveres de mujeres con senales de haber sido violadas y torturadas. Es el primer asomo de la novela a sus procelosos caudales, repletos de personajes memorables cuyas historias, a caballo entre la risa y el horror, abarcan dos continentes e incluyen un vertiginoso travelling por la historia europea del siglo XX. 2666 confirma el veredicto de Susan Sontag: «el mas influyente y admirado novelista en lengua espanola de su generacion. Su muerte, a los cincuenta anos, es una gran perdida para la literatura». La publicacion de 2666 en la coleccion «Compactos», encuadernado en tapa dura para facilitar su manejabilidad, es un acontecimiento excepcional. «Una gran novela de novelas, sin duda la mejor de su produccion, tan prematuramente interrumpida» (Ana Maria Moix, El Pais); «Lo que aqui se persigue y se alcanza es la novela total, que ubica al autor de 2666 en el mismo equipo que Cervantes, Sterne, Melville, Proust, Musil y Pynchon» (Rodrigo Fresan, Que Leer).
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Summary: The Great World Novel!
Comment: As any reader would tell you, in America, every reader of literature is in search of the Great American Novel, every reviewer tries to proclaim one work, or another to be almost there, but it always seems to fall short. Post-Modernist of late have been holding the praise, I say this do to the recent death of David Foster Wallace, whose major, nearly unreadable tome Infinite Jest played more like the Emperor's New Clothes to reviewers, than an actual work that examined anything of life and meaning and the world (At least not in the clear and lucid prose that you find here).
Roberto Bolano was a great writer because, unlike the writers in America who take on large scopes, Jonathan Franzen etc., Roberto Bolano believed in the power of the written word. While American writers cried they didn't have an audience and people weren't reading, Roberto Bolano's books delcared the eternal importance of literature, and writing, while at the same time, showing it in both its gritty realism (poverty) and its heaped of forgotteness (writers of importance who may one day become relevant).
This book is brilliant because, even though the paragraphs are long and sometimes laborous, but never are they tedious, never do you feel a word was misused or overused, never, as you do with a lot of books that write in the style that Roberto Bolano seemed to perfect, do you feel that he was ever trying to write in the way he was wriitng. Reading 2666, reading any of his works, you feel as if he sat down and what came out came out, as if you're reading a work right from his mind. A writer once said, "Writing's easy, all you have to do is sit down and open a vein," and that's what Roberto Bolano did.
The Critic Section is entertaining, a high praise to literature. Though many critics have pointed out that its second feels disjointed and a bit awkward, I'd be hard press to find such a book that created an interesting beginning about what potentially could've been an uninteresting subject (this seems to be Roberto Bolano's greatest ability, Nazi Literature in the America's, a fictional encyclopedia of far right authors). The Part about Amalfitano had a beautiful allure and moved quickly.
I don't want to give blurbs for each part, it trivializes this great work, there is no doubt if I were talk freely about each part in this review it would be a second book. When I first found Bolano, I came to him, not without urging, but not wanting to commit myself to a six hundred page brick of a book about Spanish Poets called the Savage Detectives right off the bat, so I decided to get Amulet, only because it was cheap and I had a thirty percent off coupon. I read the book in six hours and thought there couldn't be anything more special. I read his book of short stories Last Evenings On Earth and thought the urgency and brilliance of his words shows an aptitude that I haven't seen in a long time in literature. His works renewed a zeal, that feeling one gets when they're reading something they hadn't known existed. I went to the Savage Detectives quickly, and if there wasn't a great Novel of the 21st century, this was certainly it--Not American, not Latin American, Not French or Asian--but a novel, a brilliant work of fiction, from Bolano's mind to the page. A novel which broke rules that seemed so impossible to break and did it in such a way it was too beautiful to ignore. Now this book, 2666, a behemouth, a dying man's last work, a work he fought hard to get done, and left partially unfinished (though you really can't tell). This work, we can all hope, is the beginning of something, and not the final statement of a dead man, but the awakening statement to a world of writers to stop chasing the Great French or American or Mexican or Canadian or Chinese novel, and start writing the Great World Novel. This is what 2666 is, the first and maybe only great world novel. It eclipses his former works and unites them in a way that no other novel has probably ever done for an authors body of work. It came in the 21st century. It's either a start of something great to come, or the remnants of the end of the 20th century. I hope for the former, fear the latter.
Buy this book, devour it, and enjoy. It deserves to be read by anyone who has ever read a book of literature and found themselves tired with the latest strand of same old same old literary fodder. This book steps out, its a blood letting for the masses, its a speedball ride into the lurid and entertaining, into the frightening and the joyful, into the horrors of this world and into its beauties. It's a portrait and serial, pulp and high form, horrorific journalism and perfected prose, lucid and direct, a work that will have you finish and turn to the front page to start over again.
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Summary: Bolaño's Masterpiece - "a steaming cup of peyote."
Comment: According to Mrs. Bubis, wife of publisher Mr. Bubis, one of the only people alive that knew Benno von Archimboldi, "how well anyone could really know of another person's work?"
Reading "2666" by Roberto Bolaño, I feel the same way. It has been quite a journey for the English reader with a talent of his kind. From "By Night in Chile" to the chilling "Romantic Dogs," (which I finished a week before this novel) to "2666," one of Bolaño's "longer" works, preceded by the fantastic "Savage Detectives."
Much has been written (and will be) concerning this novel (see the great reviews, beginning with the one in the New York Times). In short, and without giving too much away, the story revolves around five intervals, which Bolano wanted to be released separately (in 5 year increments), involving a cast of characters as thick as the book itself. Part 1 (About the Critics) concerns four critics: Jean-Claude Pelletier from France, Manuel Espinoza from Spain, Piero Morini of Italy, and Liz Norton who, through their love of Archimboldi, come together and discuss and revel in the mysterious nature of the man. Part 2 (About Amalfitano) and Part 3 (About Fate) concerns a Chilean college professor, Amalfitano, and his dealings with his daughter and a strange geometry books; and an African-American, Quincy Williams aka Fate, who takes a assignment in Mexico covering a boxing match, which soon gets derailed due to his interest in the murders of the women detailed in the next chapter. Part 4 (About the Crimes) concerns the cornerstone of the novel, the parts tying all these people together: the murders of women, detailed by Bolaño, in the city of Santa Teresa (Cuidad Juárez) in the Sonora Desert in Northern Mexico on the US border. Part 5 (About Archimboldi) gives the final insights into our characters and ends the novel much as we began.
With Bolaño, it is the manner of his story-telling that wins him fans as well as enemies. In "2666," he pushes the boundaries that he may have placed on himself before his death in 2003. My favorite passage, in which Liz Norton realizes the genius of Archimboldi, gives you a sense of his style, if you have not read him before. This could also sum up how some readers felt reading Bolaño their first time they tried to pay attention:
"It was raining in the quadrangle, and the quadrangular sky looked like a grimace of a robot or a god made in our own likeness. The oblique drops of rain slid down the blades of grass in the park, but it would have no difference if they had slid up. Then the oblique (drops) turned round (drops), swallowed up by the earth underpinning the grass, and the grass and the earth seemed to talk, no, not talk, argue, their comprehensible words like crystallized spiderwebs or the briefest crystallized vomitings, a barely audible rustling, as if instead of drinking tea that afternoon, Norton had drunk a steaming cup of peyote."
His style is attractive and inviting (although for some the large blocks of text and absence of quotations is a turn off) and the story itself is superb. If this was unfinished. If this novel was not how Bolaño envisioned or felt represented him, help us all what a complete "2666" would look like. Nevertheless, this is Bolaño's masterpiece. The hype is for real.
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Summary: El Gran Detective
Comment: Acabo de terminar esta gran obra y aun quiero seguir leyendo acerca del gran Archimboldi, la baronesa, los criticos, los detectives, y el resto de personajes que hacen este mastodonte parecer un cuento corto. No se arrepentiran de leer este y otros libros de Roberto.
Jealousy is a horrible thing, but for those of you awaiting the English translation, jealousy is completely justified. I cannot imagine the anxiety I would feel waiting for one of his books to be translated. Don't worry though, the translation is coming soon.
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Summary: No una lectura casual
Comment: 2666 es extraño y definitivamente no para cualquiera. Es un "tour de force" que se debe leer en ciertos pasajes con paciencia, en especial lo referente a los 200 asesinatos que se detallan en exceso, todos espeluznantes, aunque probablemente basados en hechos reales según leà en alguna parte(?).
Lo interesante es el viaje no el destino. Al final no habrá respuestas. Solo historias paralelas que se unen casi accidentalmente en torno a múltiples y sufridas historias.
El estilo de escritura es fácil de seguir.
La edición española es excelente: muy buen empaste (paperback), papel y tipografÃa; fue un agrado leerlo.
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Summary: 2666
Comment: 2666 es la última novela de Roberto Bolaño. Literatura de signo magistral que prefigura la aparición y constitución de un nuevo clásico latinoamericano. La médula espinal de esta obra póstuma es el escritor desaparecido Benno von Archimboldi. La vida de cuatro crÃticos se entrecruzará en la pasión y búsqueda de tal escritor, camino que los conducirá a la ciudad mexicana de Santa Teresa. Conocerán en la segunda parte a Amalfitano, el nuevo protagonista, que ha viajado, sin ninguna justificación aparente, a México, en dónde se entrelazará su relato con el de los crÃticos. La historia gravita, además, sobre la fuerza de escenarios reales, en especial el de la frontera, Santa Teresa, contexto en donde transcurrirá también la historia de Fate, periodista estadounidense que involuntariamente se verá involucrado también con la ola de crÃmenes que atestan la ciudad. Por último, la biografÃa errante de Archimboldi (Hans Reiter), desembocará del mismo modo en México, y en el mismo desierto fronterizo que sentimos respirar a lo largo de toda la novela. 2666: atmósfera de descomposición y arbitrariedad que parece regir el destino de todos sus personajes, y el de sus testigos.
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