2666 By Roberto Bolaño Translated by Natasha Wimmer Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 898 pages, $30 (hardcover) …there was something revelatory about the taste of this bookish young pharmacist, who in another life might have been Takl or who in this life might still be writing poems as desperate as those of his distant Austrian counterpart, […]
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I am halfway through Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 and I’m still uncertain how I feel about it other than I’ll give it a chance to let all the pieces fit together. In the meantime, here are a couple of posts by Patti Smith on her reading of 2666, among other things. Part One Part Two