As in the films of David Lynch (with whom Bolano's novel shares a certain kinship) these become a catalyst for reflection. 'Including the imaginary and the mythic alongside the real in his historiography, without ever dabbling in the magical realism dear to many of his Latin-American peers, Bolano strews his chronicle with dreams and visions. 'The event of the spring: with 2666 Roberto Bolano has given us his most dense, complex, and powerful novel, a meditation on literature and evil that begins with a sordid newspaper item in contemporary Mexico.' -Morgan Boedec, CHRONIC ART The jaw-dropping synthesis of a brief but incredibly fertile career.' -Fabrice Gabriel, LES INROCKUPTIBLES We won't even mention the 'resolution' of this infernal 2666, a world of a novel in which the power of words triumphs over savagery.' -Baptiste Liger, L'EXPRESS The exploded narrative reveals a virtuosity that we rarely encounter, and one cannot help being bowled over by certain bravura passages-to single one out, the series of reports describing murdered young women, which is both magnificent and unbearable. a writer in full pursuit of the Total Novel, one that not only completes his life’s work but redefines it and raises it to new dizzying heights.” -RODRIGO FRESÁN, El País MASOLIVER RÓDENAS, La Vanguardia “One of those strange, exquisite, and astonishing experiences that literature offers us only once in a very long time. An often shockingly raunchy and violent tour de force (though the phrase seems hardly adequate to describe the novel’s narrative velocity, polyphonic range, inventiveness, and bravery) based in part on the still unsolved murders of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juárez, in the Sonora desert near the Texas border.” -FRANCISCO GOLDMAN, The New York Review of Books “Not just the great Spanish-language novel of decade, but one of the cornerstones that define an entire literature.” -J.

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