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WHAT a magnificent book!!
Even if the author wrote this book in 5 parts to be published separately, once I started reading it, I couldn't put it down.
About the book: the 1st part describes a group of four European literary critics, who have forged their careers around the reclusive German novelist Benno von Archimboldi. The 2nd part concentrates on Óscar Amalfitano, a Chilean professor of philosophy who arrives at the University of Santa Teresa from Barcelona with his young adult daughter Rosa. ...more
Even if the author wrote this book in 5 parts to be published separately, once I started reading it, I couldn't put it down.
About the book: the 1st part describes a group of four European literary critics, who have forged their careers around the reclusive German novelist Benno von Archimboldi. The 2nd part concentrates on Óscar Amalfitano, a Chilean professor of philosophy who arrives at the University of Santa Teresa from Barcelona with his young adult daughter Rosa. ...more
I had heard so many different things about 2666, Roberto Bolaño's last work of fiction, that I didn't really know what to expect anymore--and any quick read through reader reviews will confirm that there's no consensus. Now that I've finished, it strikes me that it isn't so much what Bolaño's work is about--truly, I think you can make the case that it isn't about anything, unless you count the state of civilization at the turn of the century as a subject--but more about what it suggests to the r
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This book amazed me and frustrated me at the same time. It really was all over the place. But I loved that aspect. I felt like I was in the midst of chaos almost always even while I knew what was going on at any given moment. The over all feel of the thing was epic and intense. In the end I felt overwhelmed and confused probably due to the unfinished nature I felt from it in combination of the chaotic nature. I loved the story I was currently invested in. But when things moved on I looked back a
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Aug 06, 2019
Matthew
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Kayla Tocco
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