ABSTRACT
Roberto Bolaño's novel 2666 is divided into five parts. The first, "The Part about the Critics" is a sort of academic novel focusing on the careers and romantic entanglements of a group of four literary scholars from different European countries united by a scholarly interest in the Pynchon-esquely reclusive author Benno von Archimboldi. The next section, "The Part about Amalfitano" focuses on its titular Chilean professor. Part three, "The Part about Fate" takes the form of a road narrative tinged with elements of noir as it narrates the story of Oscar Fate. The next part, "The Part about the Crimes" Lastly, "The Part about Archimboldi" narrates the life and artistic development of Archimboldi. 2666 dramatizes the vastly discrepant lived realities of transnationality for the affluent elect versus the fungible industrial labor force preterite of the neoliberal world system.
