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Roberto Bolaño
- Mar 9, 2024
The Savage Detectives
By Roberto Bolaño
- Sep 17, 2024
2666
By Roberto Bolaño
For a long time, I have believed that a truly great novel is one which contains a sliver of divinity, something which makes me want to believe in the power and glory of God. As an atheist, that feels like a sufficiently high bar, and the books that have passed it - say The Brothers Karamazov, East of Eden, One Hundred Years of Solitude - feel well within the bounds of the canonical greats. 2666 disproves this, as 2666 is clearly a great novel.