These two threads weave through the labyrinth that is 2666, connecting the many themes and tropes and moods and tones of this massive novel. There are two major, intertwined plot threads in 2666, one about a series of gruesome rapes and murders in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, Mexico, and the other concerning an obscure German writer with the improbable name Benno Von Archimboldi. What is it about, then? There are too many answers to that question, but here goes– Most of the sentences are very, very long. The book is excellent, addictive, full of pain and pathos and humanity. The book is, in my paperback edition (composed of three separate books) 893 pages long. The book comprises five sections, each focusing on a separate but often overlapping set of characters and locations. But hang on, I’m already off to a bad start I admit, there’s no context here, is there? Let me try again.Ģ666 is Chilean exile Roberto Bolaño’s posthumous magnum opus. I read the book in less than a month, usually in forty or fifty page sittings, something I usually don’t make time to do. Worried that 900 pages is too long? Don’t worry. Here’s a very short review: go get the book and read it. Do I say that the book is good, great, fantastic, a literary achievement? These words don’t seem big enough, or they seem like hackneyed clichés, ugly inadequacies.
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