2666
by Roberto Bolaño · first published 2004
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A cuatro profesores de literatura, Jean-Claude Pelletier, Piero Morini, Manuel Espinoza y Liz Norton, los une su fascinación por la obra de Beno von Archimboldi, un enigmático escritor alemán cuyo prestigio crece en todo el mundo. Su complicidad adquiere trazas de vodevil intelectual y cosmopolita –con ménage à trois incluido–, y desemboca en un disparatado peregrinaje a Santa Teresa (trasunto de Ciudad Juárez), donde hay quien dice que Archimboldi ha sido visto. 2666, novela póstuma del escritor chileno Roberto Bolaño, publicada en el año 2004, consta de cinco partes que el autor, por ra
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I don't like this advice. For one because I would have missed out on some incredible books. (the first one that comes to mind for me is Roberto Bolaño's 2666, I struggled with the first part, the rest blew me away). But more importantly to me this seems like a mindset that centers around quick gratification. Perseverance is a useful skill. Thinking the author…
on “Reading fast, reading well, and reading widely (2020)” ↗…Infinite Jest was a way of letting it all come out in a Kerouacian-stream without much thought for concision. If it helps anyone decide whether to give it a go, two recent books I read and loved were 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, and Underworld by Don DeLillo, and Infinite Jest is satisfying me in the hard-earned way they both did.
on “Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?” ↗2666 by Roberto Bolano Yeah, believe the hype. Definitely the most important novel of this century. The story revolves around the deaths of over 500 women and children in a small border town in Mexico. Absolutely…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2022 and recommend for 2023” ↗"2666" by Roberto Bolaño.
on “Ask HN: What was the best book you've read this year?” ↗…trace of subjectivism that Shakespeare is the most important writer of the English language, or Kafka the most important writer in modern German, etc. Maybe this is slightly less rigorous in the case of '2666' which is still a relatively young work, but it is widely hailed as a landmark novel.
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2022 and recommend for 2023” ↗…first time I played Half-Life 2. These games feel less like a movie I've seen or a story I've read and more like somewhere I've been. This isn't unique to video games—I've had the same feeling from, say, 2666 or Stalker—but video games seem especially well-suited to do this as a medium.
on “Half-Life” ↗Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott, Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, and the Haskell Book.
on “Ask HN: What books are you currently reading?” ↗…recommended to me, but thats more of an Amazon recommendation than an informed AI one. Its also surely the case that an IJ fan is aware of Joyce already! I tried to be more obscure and personalized: 2666 by Robert Bolaño, The Dissertation by RM Koster, and Notable American Women by Ben Marcus (which is a novel despite its title). I got back a David Foster Wallace book, another Bolaño book, a book of short…
on “Show HN: Personalized book recommendations with Librarian AI” ↗…themes of rape and murder. When I told ChatGPT I was looking for such a novel, it refused to help me. When I reset the context and told it I couldn’t remember the name of the novel, it immediately gave me 2666 by Roberto Bolaño. I have to admit I felt a little judged that ChatGPT refused to cater to what it saw as my overly prurient interest when it thought I was seeking a book recommendation as opposed to…
on “Redditor uses ChatGPT to fix annoying Safari UI issue on macOS” ↗I'm experiencing a weird Baader Meinhof Phenomenon variant right now...I just started reading 2666, which concerns itself with (among other things) a mysterious German novelist in Mexico. Very odd to see this story here right now.
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