2666 is a novel written by Roberto Bolaño. Released posthumonously in 2004, it tells of an elusive author and their ties to unsolved murders in a fictional city. It is a "fragmentary novel", with its individual parts somewhat frequently published separately.
Characters[]
The Part about the Critics[]
- Jean-Claude Pelletier - French critic focused on Benno Von Archimboldi
- Piero Morini - Italian critic focused on Benno Von Archimboldi
- Manuel Espinoza - Spanish critic focused on Benno Von Archimboldi
- Liz Norton - English critic focused on Benno Von Archimboldi
- Benno Von Archimboldi - German writer
- Edwin Johns - English painter
- Schnell - Archimboldi's editor
- Mr and Mrs. Bubis - Archimboldi's publishers
- Rodolfo Alatorre
- El Cerdo
The Part about Amalfitano[]
- Óscar Amalfitano - Chilean professor who lives in Barcelona
- Lola Amalfitano - Óscar Amalfitano's first wife
- Rosa Amalfitano - Óscar Amalfitano's daughter
- Silvia Pérez - a professor at Santa Teresa University
- Rafael Pérez - son of Silvia Pérez
- Marco Antonio Guerra - Óscar Amalfitano's friend and son of Dean Guerra
The Part about Fate[]
- Quincy Williams (Oscar Fate) - American reporter
- Edna Miller - Quincy Williams' mother
- Barry Seaman - Former leader of the Black Panther party
- Guadalupe Roncal - Mexican reporter
- Rosa Méndez - Rosa Amalfitano's friend
- Charly Cruz - Rosa Amalfitano's friend
- Chuco Flores - Rosa Amalfitano's friend
The Part about the Crimes[]
- Esperanza Gómes Saldaña - One of the victims
- Florita Almada
- Pedro Negrete
- Luisa Celina Vázquez - One of the victims
- Marcos Sepúlveda
- Ezequiel Romero
- Epifanio Galindo - A member of Santa Teresa's police force
- Isabel Urrea - One of the victims
- Francisco Santamaría
- Torito Ramírez
- Isabel "Elizabeth" Cansino - One of the victims
- Guadalupe Rojas - One of the victims
- Juan de Dios Martínez - A member of Santa Teresa's police force
- José Márquez - A member of Santa Teresa's police force
- Juan Carrasco - A priest
- Olegario "Lalo" Cura Expósito - A member of Santa Teresa's police force
- Emilia Mena Mena - One of the victims
- Margarita López Santos - One of the victims
- Sergio Gonzáles - Mexican reporter
- Zamudio
- Elvira Campos
- Ernesto Ortiz Rebolledo - A member of Santa Teresa's police force
- Gabriela Morón - One of the victims
- Marta Navales Gómez- One of the victims
- Ángel Fernandez - A member of Santa Teresa's police force
- Andrea Pacheco Martínez - One of the victims
- Felicidad Jiménez Jiménez - One of the victims
- Pedro Rengifo
- Catillo Jiménez
- Pat O'Bannion
- Leticia Contreras Zamudio - One of the victims
- Penélope Méndez Becerra - One of the victims
- Lucy Anne Sander - One of the victims
- Erica Delmore - friend's of Lucy Anne Sander
- Albert Kessler
- Kelly Riviera Parker
- Klaus Haas - Suspect of the feminicides in Santa Teresa
The Part about Archimboldi[]
- Hans Reiter (or Archimboldi) - a German author
- Lotte Reiter - Hans' younger sister
- Heinz Vogel
- Hugo Halder - Hans' first friend
- Norubo Nisamata - an employee of a Japanese embassy that Hugo is friends with
- Greta von Joachimsthaler - one of Hugo's friends
- Conrad Halder- Hugo's father, lives in France
- Paul Gercke - Hans' superior officer in the army
- Anitta - a sex worker
- Baron Von Zumpe - Hugo's cousin who employs Hans
- Baroness Von Zumpe - Hugo's cousin
- Eugenio Entrescu
- Pablo Popescu
- Reich Herman Hoensch
- Ingerborg Bauer
Publisher's summary[]
Written with burning intensity in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 has been hailed across the world as the great writer's masterpiece, surpassing everything in imagination, beauty and scope. It is a novel on an astonishing scale from a passionate visionary.
Santa Teresa, on the Mexico-US border: an urban sprawl that draws lost souls to it like a vortex. Convicts and academics find themselves here, as does an American sportswriter, a teenage student with her widowed father, and a reclusive, 'missing' author. But there is a darker side to the town. As in the real town of Juárez, on which Santa Teresa is based, girls and women are disappearing at an alarming rate . . .
As 2666 progresses, as the sense of conspiracy grows, as the shadow of the apocalypse draws closer, Santa Teresa becomes an emblem of the corruption, violence and decadence of twentieth-century European history.
Plot[]
The Part about the Critics[]
to be added
The Part about Amalfitano[]
to be added
The Part about Fate[]
to be added
The Part about the Crimes[]
to be added
The Part about Archimboldi[]
to be added
See also[]
| Title | Author | Release date | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Savage Detectives | Roberto Bolaño | 1998 | A novel by the same author with similar themes |
| The Pale King | David Foster Wallace | 2011 | A posthumonous and heavily metafictional postmodernist novel |
| Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges | 1944 | A collection of short stories which possibly inspired this novel |
| The Rainbow Stories | William T. Vollmann | 1989 | A collection of short stories with similar themes |
| Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell | 2004 | A postmodernist fragmentary novel |
| Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov | 1962 | A postmodernist fragmentary novel |
| House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski | 2000 | A postmodernist and extremely experimental fragmentary novel |
Sources[]
- Wikipedia