Reading 2666: Part IV
Jacob Singer: The fourth section of this novel worked me over. What I mean by thatis I felt like a piece of dough being worked in a repetitivemotion—except it wasn’t physical at all –it was all mind and soul.Rape, anal rape, murder, unrecognizable corpses found by a road, etc.Bolaño isn’t sentimental about how death looks. […]
Reading 2666: Part III
This is the second part of a dialogue/collaborative review about Roberto Bolano’s 2666 between contributors Jacob Singer and Benjamin van Loon. Read Part I and Part II here. – – – JACOB SINGER: So after I finished college I moved to the college town of Tucson, Arizona and went to Nogales, Mex and drove around the Sonoran desert. Border towns […]
Reading 2666: Part II
This is the second part of a dialogue/collaborative review about Roberto Bolano’s 2666 between contributors Jacob Singer and Benjamin van Loon. Read Part I here. – – – JACOB SINGER: The novel is broken into five sections, and the first book follows four academics (all from different European countries) searching for the mysterious novelist Benno […]
Reading 2666: Part I
In that indeterminate cosmic way, contributors Jacob Singer and Benjamin van Loon both decided—independently—to venture into the monolithic world of Roberto Bolano’s 2666. In the universe of contemporary literary fiction, 2666 is like a wormhole, through which strands of messiahs, murderers, and mysteries swirl together in a strange, self-referential literary thread. Both Jacob and Ben realized that a […]
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