Bolaño

Contributed by Felix L.G I first came to appreciate Roberto Bolaño reading 2666 a couple years ago. The way he could build a sense of dread had me reading as attentively as I would with some of my favourite authors – Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O’Connor, Anne Hebert, to name a few who bring me to that same emotional place. This novel was a different experience. The epigraph of 2666 is a Baudelaire quote, “An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom”. This novel felt far more in the territory of th...