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454725 No.454725 [Reply] [Original]

Do it, faggot!

>> No.454741

Is it just me or has Bolano become the new token relatively contemporary non-English writer everyone likes - like Murakami?

Also is 2666 really that good?

>> No.454753

>>454741

Like a lot of novels in the "highly ambitious, enormous post-modern novel encompassing many countries and dozens to hundreds of characters" genre it is fitfully brilliant, often difficult and obscure, sometimes exciting and sometimes frustrating.

>> No.454766

>>454753

Thanks, I'm convinced now. Adding to the wishlist.

>> No.456148

Looking forward to the translations coming out in the next year or so.

>> No.456152

2666 really is that good, but you shouldn't overlook his other stuff, all of which is more..accessible?

>> No.456154

dunno lol
actually yeah, kind of is dat good

>> No.456166

reading it now, its like been trapped in one of those calm nightmares

>> No.456184

>>454741
It's funny you should mention Murakami because there are definately traces of 'the wind up bird chronicles' in '2666'. Whatever, they're both still in my top 5 books of all time.

His short story collection 'last evenings on earth' is phenomenal as well. He is just outrageously talented!

>> No.456186

he is god

>> No.456190

>>454741
i think it was bcause the hype for 2666 spilled into the mainstream

>> No.456211

Too bad he died in 2003 before he ever got successful.
For a while he mostly lived from small sums of prize money he would win all over south-america, travelling from one reception to another, because he could not live from his publishing alone.
And its pretty unlikely that he was influenced by Murakami. I read a bunch of his essays and he hardly ever mentions any author that is not south-american or a real classic.

>> No.456216

>>456211

Too bad on one hand, but..he needed to be dying to write 2666.

>> No.457069

i fucked a dog in the ass yesterday