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2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano
Publisher: Picador

2666 by Roberto Bolaño (2004) (translated from the spanish by Natasha Wimmer, 2008). Facetious, I know, but hey, I got through the book. Several days ago, I came out with a rather clumsy post (mostly written during my lunch break) comparing "The Part About Archimboldi" to a novel by Jakov Lind called Landscape in Concrete. That is the basis for their connection. Kevin Nguyen interviews Charlotte Strick, the designer of 2666's U.S. Roberto Bolaño's final novel 2666, released posthumously, is a sprawling literary tome. Namely, Bolaño's wish was for 2666 to be published in separate volumes, one per year ( I believe). You can't talk about 2666 without mentioning the book design. The first thing I'll say is it took me a very long time to get through this book. 898 pages, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. And the experience was generally positive. I can imagine that as a book 2666 would present a huge challenge to me, because it's very testing in places. In the first section of Bolano's 2666, the academics have Archembolo's books in common.