/lit/ - Literature

Why the fuck is this supposed to be good? I don't get it, somebody please enlighten me.

>>10992045

I'd really like to read that. If you could add commentary, too, that'd be infinitely valuable. Maybe do installments or something.

I'm not fluent in Spanish, but I've read some bilingual poetry books. If anything, Spanish would be the language I'd learn, because my interest in literature is taking me in that direction.

>>10992078

Why naked men, though? It seems strange to me. I like the pic related cover, too, but it would be nice if there was a slipcase edition that split the novel into the separate five parts.

What's the deal with the sixth part I had read was found in his papers? I could be mistaken. There were apparently two novels found after his death, one was Woes of the True Policeman (maybe people mistook that for being the sixth part because of the similar characters?). 2666 is already mythologized as this work he was racing against death itself to finish, and I had heard he wanted it published in five separate parts to make more money for his family. But then I had heard that was another part, too.

His life is difficult to separate fact from fiction sometimes. That does pull me in. I like buying into a legend only to come closer to the truth and develop a different appreciation with time.