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Hats668 t1_j5zuitr wrote

Reply to comment by JeanVanDeVelde in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 and my struggle to love it by ThatCommanderShepard

What I had heard was that he split up into 5 to maximize the amount of money he could leave his son (he was dying as he wrote it), though I'm not completely sure that is true.

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JeanVanDeVelde t1_j5zzcle wrote

Either way, it works out for the reader. No problem to treat each part as a separate novel, it's not exactly breezy reading.

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