Bolaño, as Marques, and the majority of his fellow South American greatest writers (maybe perhaps with the marvelous exception of Mario Vargas Llosa) were leftists. I suppose he was talking about the South Americans. After 40 years, Roberto Bolaño reshaped them again”. I read a small review in which the critic said something extremely nice, something like “Gabriel Garcia Marquez changed the writing frontiers.

You know what? You have to read the book on your own, because everything I can say here may be considered a spoiler. There is only one person in this world aware of all those location changes, his publisher’s wife, eventually becoming his publisher after her husband’s passing away. He travels and constantly changes his address. The German is more reclusive than a hermit.

In the first part of five, four academics obsessed with Benno von Archimboldi’s work, try to find and talk to him.

Only that Archimboldi’s style was considered chaotic by his critics, which is far from Mr. Researching for this review, I have discovered with no less amusement, that this guy’s traits are inspired by the author himself. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.2666 doesn’t have a definite plot, but it has a central character, a German writer named Benno von Archimboldi. He takes his time getting there-he tells three often charming book-length tales before arriving at the murders-but when he does, in a brutal and quietly strange landscape where neither David Lynch nor Cormac McCarthy's Anton Chigurh would feel out of place, he writes with a horror that is both haunting and deeply humane. But where the motion of The Savage Detectives is outward, expanding in wider and wider orbit to collect everything about our lonely world, 2666, while every bit as omnivorous, ratchets relentlessly toward a dark center: the hundreds of mostly unsolved murders of women in the desert borderlands of maquiladoras and la migra in northern Mexico. And here it is: 2666, the 898-page novel he sprinted to finish before his early death in 2003, again showing Bolaño's mesmerizing ability to spin out tale after tale that balance on the edge between happy-go-lucky hilarity and creeping dread.

It was still another to read it and know, from the advance reports of Spanish readers, that Bolaño's true masterpiece was still to come. Amazon Best of the Month, November 2008: It was one thing to read Roberto Bolaño's novel The Savage Detectives last year and have your mind thrilled and expanded by a sexy, meandering masterpiece born whole into the English language.

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