![]() His prose is short on adjectives and sometimes deliberately infelicitous but it can also beguile. He alternates between brisk vignettes and passages of meandering opulence. (.) 2666 is less fun than The Savage Detectives but it is a summative work - a grand recapitulation of the author’s main concerns and motifs. (.) Ce serait inoubliable." - Olivier Mony, Le Figaro (.) Ce serait un livre moderne, indifférent à la modernité. Un De profundis baroque et énigmatique, le crime passionnel d'un homme mort par et pour la littérature, qui laisse aux vivants ce livre, comme une armée vaincue fait retraite en brûlant la terre derrière elle. "Pas un roman, mais un bréviaire pour les temps présents, un immense manuel de deuil et de mélancolie.Certainly not nothing." - David Sexton, Evening Standard ![]() And however much the novel circles around uncontrollable evil, social disorder and the questionable value of literature itself, Bolaño's true preoccupation remains always, unmistakeably, the search for love and meaning in life. Though the book is often quite maddening - in the way it's so plethoric, constantly introducing new characters and dropping others, never having a main protagonist, choosing to leave so much unexplained, proceeding like a dream - it also always has a power to command the reader, to absorb and mystify you.
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