![]() ![]() In the porter's opinion, "Michael knows things the rest of us don't". The mysterious author may or may not be related to a series of sadistic killings in the Mexican border town of Santa Teresa, where an investigative journalist known as Fate has a curious conversation with a hotel clerk about Michael Jackson. ![]() Looking forward to reading the rest of 2666, although I can see how Part 1 can be a novel of its own. The end of the Part 1 was one of the saddest, most beautiful and brilliantly written things I've ever read. It takes some force of will to make it through this sequence of five separate, tangentially linked novels, the recurring thread of which is the identity of a reclusive author named Benno von Archimboldi, whose impenetrable books have become cult objects among academics. The first 120 pages of the book felt like an introduction to something and only the last 40 pages put everything together. He thought of his novels, stories and poems as an interconnected system, and in the short novel Amulet we hear a character. In fact it concerns a pair of rival literary critics who find sex difficult, one of whom "could screw for six hours (without coming) thanks to his bibliography" while the other "finished half dead sheerly on the basis of strength and force of will". The date 2666 is a riddle that recurs throughout Bolao's body of work. T he posthumous appearance of BolaƱo's mammoth magnum opus caused one reviewer to proclaim that it "makes difficulty sexy". ![]()
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