![]() There’s an undercurrent of energy to everyone’s dreams that somehow or another leads them to this haunted city. I usually don’t like when writers go on at length about dreams but here, I feel like Bolaño uses them perfectly. ![]() The idea of “dreamspace” is that people can inhabit places in the dreams of others but there are no rules about it and to try and understand it is futile. I remember The Leftovers used this idea of dreamspace that they borrowed from what I believe was an aboriginal tribe (or if not aboriginal, perhaps another indigenous tribe in Australia). 2 and 3 were underdeveloped, especially 3, which was disappointing because it was the only one from an American perspective, yet I’m not sure if Bolaño really knew how to write an African-American character’s POV. The 1st, 4th and 5th stories will always stay with me. ![]() Rather than have there be a bunch of coincidences, the pull to Santa Theresa felt somewhat organic. The five story lines connected in a way that was unconventional. So this is going to be a grab bag of thoughts about a stirring, complex, difficult, beautiful, exhausting, breathtaking book. But to summarize it the way I normally do (plot, good points, bad points, summation) won’t do it justice. ![]() ![]() I know it’s an excellent novel it felt like Bolaño was writing through me rather than to me. This isn’t going to be a conventional review because I don’t know what to say about 2666 or really make of it. ![]()
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