2666 (en español) by Roberto Bolaño

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  • Pub. Date: September 2009
  • 1136pp
  • Sales Rank: 12,675
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    • Pub. Date: September 2009
    • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
    • Format: Paperback, 1136pp
    • Sales Rank: 12,675

    Synopsis

    Cinco pequeñas novelas, cuidadosamente hilvanadas, integran esta gran novela, con una impresionante maraña de destinos, personajes y líneas argumentales y genéricas. La figura de Von Archimbaldi, un enigmático escritor alemán, es el hilo secreto que cose entre sí las cinco partes de la novela. Cuatro profesores de literatura, de distintas naciones europeas, estudian todo lo relacionado con el escritor alemán, candidato al Nobel. Sus vidas transcurren entre congresos, estudios de la obra del autor y un complicado entramado amoroso que implica hasta un triángulo o cuadrángulo amoroso, cuyo vértice fundamental es la mujer del grupo, la profesora Norton. Siguiendo los pasos de Von Archimboldi, los profesores llegan a Santa Teresa, una ciudad mexicana de frontera, donde suceden centenares de asesinatos y violaciones a mujeres jóvenes. El autor realiza, de esta forma, una minuciosa reconstrucción del infierno de los famosos asesinatos en Ciudad Juárez -aquí Santa Teresa-, como un rompecabezas de historias.

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    Last year's The Savage Detectives by the late Chilean-Mexican novelist Bolaño (1953-2003) garnered extraordinary sales and critical plaudits for a complex novel in translation, and quickly became the object of a literary cult. This brilliant behemoth is grander in scope, ambition and sheer page count, and translator Wimmer has again done a masterful job.

    The novel is divided into five parts (Bolaño originally imagined it being published as five books) and begins with the adventures and love affairs of a small group of scholars dedicated to the work of Benno von Archimboldi, a reclusive German novelist. They trace the writer to the Mexican border town of Santa Teresa (read: Juarez), but there the trail runs dry, and it isn't until the final section that readers learn about Benno and why he went to Santa Teresa. The heart of the novel comes in the three middle parts: in "The Part About Amalfitano," a professor from Spain moves to Santa Teresa with his beautiful daughter, Rosa, and begins to hear voices. "The Part About Fate," the novel's weakest section, concerns Quincy "Fate" Williams, a black American reporter who is sent to Santa Teresa to cover a prizefight and ends up rescuing Rosa from her gun-toting ex-boyfriend. "The Part About the Crimes," the longest and most haunting section, operates on a number of levels: it is a tormented catalogue of women murdered and raped in Santa Teresa; a panorama of the power system that is either covering up for the real criminals with its implausible story that the crimes were all connected to a German national, or too incompetent to find them (or maybe both); and it is a collection of the stories of journalists, cops,murderers, vengeful husbands, prisoners and tourists, among others, presided over by an old woman seer.

    It is safe to predict that no novel this year will have as powerful an effect on the reader as this one. (Nov.)

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    Biography

    Roberto Bolaño nació en Santiago, Chile, en 1953. Pasó gran parte de su vida en México y en España, donde murió a la edad de cincuenta años. Es autor de numerosas obras de ficción, no ficción y poesía. Su libro Los detectives salvajes ganó el Premio Rómulo Gallegos de Novela y fue uno de los Mejores Libros del 2007 para The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times y The New York Times Book Review. En 2008, recibió póstumamente el Premio de Ficción del National Book Critics Circle por 2666.

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