On Roberto Bolaño's 2666

from Literary Ramblings · host Scott Talmage, Joe Hecker, Kevin McCarthy, and Wes Allen

In this episode, Joe, Scott, Wes, and Kevin discuss Roberto Bolaño's 2004 work, 2666. This 900+ page work has been hailed Bolaño's masterpiece and one of the most significant novels of the 21st century. We discuss Bolaño's work as a post-Boom reaction to writers like García Márquez, the strength and weaknesses of each of the five sections, our favorite post- modern digressions and much more...

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