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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Books 2666: Whoops!

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:19 PM

Apparently, someone has found two unpublished novels among Roberto Bolaño's personal effects. Bolaño, of course, is the author of 2666, the five-part novel that Brendan Kiley reviewed for us last year.

Except, they might have just found a sixth part:

Two new novels by the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño have reportedly been found in Spain among papers he left behind after his death. The previously unseen manuscripts were entitled Diorama and The Troubles of the Real Police Officer, reported La Vanguardia.

The newspaper said the documents also included what is believed to be a sixth section of Bolaño's epic five-part novel 2666.

The Wylie Agency, the literary agency, which recently took over the Bolaño estate, declined to comment about the reports. The novels apparently came to light when piles of documents, notebooks and diaries left behind by Bolaño were being sifted through.

I wonder how Bolaño's publisher will market that sixth part. Maybe they'll include it with the paperback edition?

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The post-mortem adventures of Bolano's writings sound like something that Bolano himself would write about. I wouldn't be surprised if Bolano was actually alive and living in the Sonora desert, waiting for young idealists to track him down years from now.

Posted by Bub on March 10, 2009 at 2:28 PM

Just think of it as an excuse to republish it as a double trilogy.

Or what the 19th century called "a book".

Posted by Will in Seattle on March 10, 2009 at 2:44 PM

there already is a paperback edition, published as a three-volume box set.

Posted by josh on March 10, 2009 at 3:18 PM