Last year I became consumed by the literary work of Roberto Bolaño. His combination of dark realism, historical fiction, surrealism and comedy can‘t be matched.
’2666’ is a nice long novel that weaves the lives of strangers based on their lives taking them to a fictitious town called Santa Theresa. The town harbors a darkness surrounding it that is caused by hundreds of mostly identical murders happening every year. The town being based on Juarez.
A kaleidoscopic magnum opus and Bolaño’s first work released posthumously, this book is 100% worth your time.
It felt like every magical realism, multiple-narrative, unreliable or consistent, speculative work I've ever read before, cascaded into this one. Like they were all mirrors of his work. It pays to read the forerunners!
This is my year of taking stock of what's actually important. Prioritizing myself and not giving myself to platforms that don't serve me or stress me out.
