"I felt as through i was being wheeled into an operating room. I thought: I am in the women's bathroom in the Faculty of Philosophy...

"This is going to be a horror story. A story of murder, detection and horror. But it won't appear to be, for the simple reason that...

Had one of those forehead slapping moments today when the writing of Roberto Bolano started to make a great deal more sense. What has helped...

It is with some trepidation that the task of pulling together some coherent thoughts about Roberto Bolano ’s 2666 is begun. What you rememb...

The last section takes you off at a slight tangent telling you the life story of the german writer that connects the three critics, the town...

The fourth part of 2666 is the longest and so far the most difficult to read. If the aim was to get across a sense of the confusion and corr...

For almost 80% of part three you are wondering where on earth the book is going and what the connection is to part one and two. Then the pen...

Having taken the characters from the first part to a god forsaken town in Mexico the second part expands on one of the minor characters who ...

There is a dream like quality to this story with dreams being described, shared and things to fear. Three critics of a long forgotten german...

This is such a mammoth book not just in terms of the actual word count but also the font and leading on the page make it a dense reading exp...