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Work #840 · Late

2666

Roberto Bolaño
2001-03 (composed during fatal illness); 2004 (posthumous) · Spanish
Postmodern five-part novel · Early-twenty-first-century Latin American postmodernism

Bolaño's 2004 posthumous five-part novel — Santa Teresa femicides and twentieth-century evil

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Attribute 2666 (Late)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Non-Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Bi-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Partial
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency None
Observer · Moral Authority Experience
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

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The twentieth-century time and the year-by-year crimes.

Space

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Europe, Santa Teresa, the WWII Eastern Front.

Matter

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The bodies of the femicide victims.

Observer

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Five narrative blocks across critics, professor, journalist, victims, writer.

Energy

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Energies of evil, dispersal, and witness.

Information

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The accumulating documentary record of femicides.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

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Bolaño's 2666: foundational for early-twenty-first-century Latin American postmodernism; a major statement of fiction confronting global evil.