Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of Santa Teresa a fictional Juárez on the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared. The work earned Bolano the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
We'll be meeting to discuss the first half (to approximately pg. 445) of this on August 12th at the Main Library in Conference Rm 3 at noon. Feel free to bring a lunch.
