Week 14: Dreams
by Daryl L.L. Houston 779: The old fortune-teller from whom Reiter gets his distinctive black coat tells Reiter that the coat belonged to a spy. Sometimes, she declines to say or hear anything about...
View ArticleWeek 15: I will not let thee go except thou be blessed
And so we came to the end, not with a bang but with a whimper. At the end of this week, the group read of 2666 is officially over. But I feel like there is a lot of unfinished business. There are a lot...
View ArticleWeek 15: La guerre n’est pas finie
by Maria Bustillos If I became somewhat quiet as our reading progressed, it’s not because I got lazy; it’s because the farther in we got, the more I realized I will be reading this book many, many...
View ArticleWeek 15: Deaths
by Michael Cooler p.834 — Leube admits that he killed his wife by pushing her into a ravine. p.836 — We learn that Ingeborg has died in a remote village on the Adriatic coast, by drowning. p.848 —...
View ArticleWeek 15: Dreams
by Daryl L.L. Houston 851: Popescu listens to Romanian intellectuals who are asking him for loans as if he’s asleep or in a dream. 864: As a child, after Reiter goes off to war, Lotte hears him in her...
View ArticleGuest Post: Roberto’s Blues by Matt Hunte
Roberto’s Blues by Matt Hunte Nobody really knows or understands and nobody has ever said the secret. The secret is that it is poetry written into prose and it is the hardest of all things to do....
View ArticleThe Femicide Myth
A recent publication by Robert Andrew Powell titled The Dead Women of Juarez (Kindle Single, $1.99) examines the numbers of women killed in Ciudad Juarez from the early 1990s to the present. What...
View ArticleWild Lord: BOLAÑO’S 2666: MAPPING MY LITERARY OBSESSION
Wild Lord has an excellent essay up about the very nature of 2666: To my mind, 2666 is — by a long shot — the greatest novel of this young century, and that distinction should stand for some time. It...
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An Oasis of Horror in a Desert of Boredom
Johnathan Russell Clark has published the first book about 2666. It’s a slim volume from Fiction Advocate’s new series called “…Afterwords” (which includes other books on Joan Didion’s The Year of...
View ArticleWatch 2666 Stage Adaptation for Free
The Goodman Theater is providing free streaming of their stage adaptation of 2666 through April 2020 (at least). Watch here: https://www.goodmantheatre.org/Watch2666/ The adaptation changes some...
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