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2666.(Brief article)(Book review)
More vast and more lurid than his previous novels that have been translated into English, "2666" is not Roberto Bolano's masterpiece but almost a compendium, in individual scenes, of the qualities that made him a great writer. His themes are violence, dislocation, and the sexiness of literature, and here these strands are recombined endlessly, in Europe, Detroit, and Mexico, through ...
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