2666
A cuatro profesores de literatura, Jean-Claude Pelletier, Piero Morini, Manuel Espinoza y Liz Norton, los une su fascinación por la obra de Beno von Archimboldi, un enigmático escritor alemán cuyo prestigio crece en todo el mundo. Su complicidad adquiere trazas de vodevil intelectual y cosmopolita –con ménage à trois incluido–, y desemboca en un disparatado peregrinaje a Santa Teresa (trasunto de Ciudad Juárez), donde hay quien dice que Archimboldi ha sido visto. 2666, novela póstuma del escritor chileno Roberto Bolaño, publicada en el año 2004, consta de cinco partes que el autor, por razones económicas, planeó publicar como cinco libros independientes para asegurar así, en caso de fallecimiento, el futuro de sus hijos. No obstante, tras su muerte, los herederos ponderaron el valor literario y decidieron editarla como una única novela. Asombroso alarde de audacia y de poderío narrativo, 2666 se propone como una nueva y revolucionaria modalidad de novela total.
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What Hacker News says
- I haven't played many different games over the last few years, but both Half-Life: Alyx and Zelda: Breath of the Wild left strong impressions. Both games have a rare sense of place that's hard to replicate in other mediums—the same thing that stood out for me after the first time I played Half-Life 2. These games feel less like a movie I've seen or a story I've read and more like somewhere I've been.
This isn't unique to video games—I've had the same feeling from, say, 2666 or Stalker—but video games seem especially well-suited to do this as a medium.
- 2666 by Roberto Bolano
Yeah, believe the hype. Definitely the most important novel of this century.
The story revolves around the deaths of over 500 women and children in a small border town in Mexico. Absolutely devastating read, It feels like most novels are rather silly in comparison (2666 even pokes fun at literature in general for ignoring the atrocities in Mexico.) 5 stars.
- > “Importance” is subjective
No, not really. "Importance" is a rough proxy for legacy and influence. This is why one can say without any trace of subjectivism that Shakespeare is the most important writer of the English language, or Kafka the most important writer in modern German, etc. Maybe this is slightly less rigorous in the case of '2666' which is still a relatively young work, but it is widely hailed as a landmark novel.
- I don't like this advice. For one because I would have missed out on some incredible books. (the first one that comes to mind for me is Roberto Bolaño's 2666, I struggled with the first part, the rest blew me away).
But more importantly to me this seems like a mindset that centers around quick gratification. Perseverance is a useful skill. Thinking the author needs to get you in the first 50 pages is somewhat entitled attitude. The restaurant metaphor seems apt because it seems like taking the "the customer is king" attitude to reading. There's humility involved in reading that requires to give an author time.
- I've just started it - I'm about 10% of the way in and I'm really engaged - enjoying it but with a kind of mental equivalent of full-body exhaustion way after a big day at the beach - it's fun but also hard and sometimes just plain difficult. I think DFW was swimming in so many ideas & feelings that Infinite Jest was a way of letting it all come out in a Kerouacian-stream without much thought for concision.
If it helps anyone decide whether to give it a go, two recent books I read and loved were 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, and Underworld by Don DeLillo, and Infinite Jest is satisfying me in the hard-earned way they both did.
- "2666" by Roberto Bolaño.
