2666

Name: 2666
Author: Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolaño · 2004

Five parts, five nightmares, one Mexican city where women keep disappearing. Bolano's posthumous 900-page labyrinth of violence, literature, and the void at the center of modernity was published in 2004. It earned its claim as the most important novel of the 21st century so far.

The case against

on the crimes section
“it read like a laundry list of crimes replete with all the sordid details.”
four stars · a book blog
on the tangents
“the constant buildup and tangents that turn into nothing left me frustrated in the end”
a book blog
on the length
“It is a silly book with a lot of pages full of literature.”
a Substack review
on the ending
“the ending (after nearly 900 pages of reading) was for me a let down.”
three stars · a book blog