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2666

Roberto BolañoOriginal title 2666 (Spanish, 2004)

2666 is the last novel by Roberto Bolaño. It was released in 2004, a year after Bolaño's death. Its themes are manifold, and it revolves around an elusive German author and the unsolved and ongoing murders of women in Santa Teresa, a violent city inspired by Ciudad Juárez and its epidemic of female homicides. In addition to Santa Teresa, settings and themes include the Eastern Front in World War II, the academic world, mental illness, journalism, and the breakdown of relationships and careers. 2666 explores 20th-century degeneration through a wide array of characters, locations, time periods, and stories within stories.

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“Only in chaos are we conceivable.”

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“Every hundred feet the world changes”

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“Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.”

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“They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him….”

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“For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…”

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“For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.”

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“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”

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“So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.”

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“Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.”

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“We play at believing ourselves imortal. We delude oursleves in the appraisal of our own works and in our perpetual misappraisal of the works of others. See you at the Nobel, writers say, as one might say: see you in hell.”

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“Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.”

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“The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.”

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“The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.”

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