![]() Ever on a quest of self-reinvention, the Goodman artistic director, an essential figure in this city, enjoys rebellious, epic projects - and, well, so did Bolano, whose work is all the more important to expose in Chicago as few are aware of it. ![]() I could fill the page with comparable adjectives, all neatly arranged in constructs of paradox.įor Falls, I suspect some of the appeal of wrestling "2666" into a play was the sheer impossibility of the task - the length, the fusion of so many themes, the plethora of locations, the wild contrast of styles. There are, for sure, a veritable plethora of disparate narrative strands, but "2666" also is formidably disparate in style - it runs hot, cold, nasty, graphic, ephemeral, moralistic. What is it all about? Well, various admirers of the feverishly acclaimed novel have seen "2666" as a post-nationalist fantasia (an assertion that nationalism messes us all up), a transcendent head-trip and a very visceral and personal accounting of the myriad terrors and redemptive connective tissues of the 20th century. I'll note, though, that we ultimately learn stuff about the history and identity of Archimboldi that the academics do not, could not, know, and that all roads ultimately lead to Santa Teresa, a sprawling border town with so many identities it has none at all. I'll stop there, since the rest unspools mostly as a surprise. ![]()
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