{"id":264436,"date":"2008-09-08T14:27:06","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T14:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/09\/08\/898-pages-later\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:29:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:29:52","slug":"898-pages-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/09\/08\/898-pages-later\/","title":{"rendered":"898 Pages Later . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>2666<\/em> is a true masterpiece. I plan on writing something more substantial later, after taking some time to think about the novel, but in the meantime I want to share a couple interesting bits from the &#8220;Note to the First Edition&#8221; about Bolano&#8217;s notes on the novel:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In one of his many notes for <em>2666<\/em>, Bolano indicates the existence in the work of a &#8220;hidden center,&#8221; concealed beneath what might be considered the novel&#8217;s &#8220;physical center.&#8221; There is reason to think that this physical center is the city of Santa Teresa, faithful reflection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trutv.com\/library\/crime\/serial_killers\/predators\/ciudad_juarez\/index.html\">Ciudad Juarez,<\/a> on the Mexican-U.S. border. There the five parts of the novel ultimately converge; there the crimes are committed that comprise its spectacular backdrop (and that are said by one of the novel&#8217;s characters to contain &#8220;the secret of the world&#8221;). As for the &#8220;hidden center&#8221; . . . , might it not represent <em>2666<\/em> itself, the date upon which the whole novel rests? [. . .]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A final observation is perhaps in order here. Among Bolano&#8217;s notes for <em>2666<\/em> there appears the single line: &#8220;The narrator of <em>2666<\/em> is Arturo Bolano.&#8221; And elsewhere Bolano adds, with the indication &#8220;for the end of <em>2666<\/em>&#8220;: &#8220;And that&#8217;s it, friends. I&#8217;ve done it all, I&#8217;ve lived it all. If I had the strength, I&#8217;d cry. Farewell to you all, Arturo Bolano.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2666 is a true masterpiece. I plan on writing something more substantial later, after taking some time to think about the novel, but in the meantime I want to share a couple interesting bits from the &#8220;Note to the First Edition&#8221; about Bolano&#8217;s notes on the novel: In one of his many notes for 2666, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[11246,1836,756],"class_list":["post-264436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-11246","tag-cwp","tag-roberto-bolano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356996,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264436\/revisions\/356996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}