Topic: Roberto Bolano
Stories and scholarship from around the world were honored by book critics Thursday night, including works about the ancient and modern Middle East and a novel set in Mexico, the late Roberto Bolano's "2666." The National Book Critics Circle awarded the fiction prize to ...
Presidential favorite Marilynne Robinson, the late Roberto Bolano of Chile and a memoir about Africa featured last year at Starbucks were among the finalists announced Saturday for the National Book Critics Circle prizes. Others nominated in six competitive categories included Annette Gordon-Reed's "The Hemingses of Monticello," winner ...
2666 by Roberto Bolaño Picador, £20, pp. 898, ISBN 9780330447423 £16 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Not every writer would write a novel in the form of a completely invented encyclopaedia of imaginary writers and call the result Nazi Literature in the Americas. Not everyone, either, would write a novel in two paragraphs, the second less ...
Global Fragmentation
Roberto Bolaño's 2666 depicts a world ripped apart by globalization.
By Jacob Savage, December 29, 2008
In his famous story “The Library of Babel,” Jorge Luis Borges writes of a vast and infinite library, a collection that contains every combination of words possible, every book that ...
