An Oasis of Horror in a Desert of Boredom: Roberto Bolano`s 2666, Clark Jonathan Russell

Literary Nonfiction. After Devouring 2666 by Roberto Bola�o on the New York City subway, Jonathan Russell Clark does what any good literary critic would do�he reads everything by Bola�o he can get his hands on. But the more he learns about the writers unlikely life, the less it makes sense. Bola�o cultivated ambiguities and false identities, almost as if he were laying a trap for his future biographers. Clarks investigation into Bola�os magnum opus is a stumble through a labyrinth where fiction and self-mythologizing converge. This book is part of a new series from Fiction Advocate called Afterwords.

A Sontag-worthy encapsulation of another writer.--Christopher Wood, The Quarterly Conversation