《2666》第一部分“文学评论家”，讲述四位来自欧洲不同国家的文学评论家，因共同喜欢并研究德国作家阿琴波尔迪而成为好友。当他们得知失踪多年的阿琴波尔迪曾现身墨西哥圣特莱莎后，其中三人决定前往寻找。

　　第二部分“阿玛尔菲塔诺”是举家迁居圣特莱莎的智利教授的故事。他也是文学评论家们寻人之旅的向导，正在一天天接近神经错乱的边缘。

　　第三部分“法特”，是被派往圣特莱莎采访拳击比赛的纽约记者的故事。当得知这座边境城市正接连发生骇人听闻的女性被害案件后，他试图进行报道，却发现困难重重。

　　第四部分“罪行”，一篇接一篇令人惊心的犯罪记录，如档案般呈现1993—1997年间发生在圣特莱莎的残杀女性案件。绝大多数命案未被破获，也无人能阻止杀害继续发生。

　　第五部分“阿琴波尔迪”，回归开篇引入的神秘作家，从“二战”前的德国到1990年代罪案频发的圣特莱莎，详尽描绘阿琴波尔迪一生的传奇经历。

　　作者简介

　　罗贝托・波拉尼奥（RobertoBolaño，1953—2003）

　　出生于智利，父亲是卡车司机和业余拳击手，母亲在学校教授数学和统计学。1968年全家移居墨西哥。1973年波拉尼奥再次回到智利投身社会主义革命却遭到逮捕，差点被杀害。逃回墨西哥后他和好友推动了融合超现实主义、达达主义以及街头剧场的“现实以下主义”（Infrarealism）运动，意图激发拉丁美洲年轻人对生活与文学的热爱。1977年他前往欧洲，最后在西班牙波拉瓦海岸结婚定居。2003年因为肝脏功能损坏，等不到器官移植而在巴塞罗那去世，年仅五十岁。

　　波拉尼奥近四十岁才开始写小说，作品数量却十分惊人，身后留下十部小说、四部短篇小说集以及三部诗集。1998年出版的《荒野侦探》在拉美文坛引起的轰动，不亚于三十年前《百年孤独》出版时的盛况。而其身后出版的《2666》更是引发欧美舆论压倒性好评，均致以杰作、伟大、里程碑、天才等等赞誉。苏珊・桑塔格、约翰・班维尔、科尔姆・托宾、斯蒂芬・金等众多作家对波拉尼奥赞赏有加，更有评论认为此书的出版自此将作者带至塞万提斯、斯特恩、梅尔维尔、普鲁斯特、穆齐尔与品钦的同一队列。

　　

The first part of 2666, "Literary Critics", tells the story of four literary critics from different European countries who became friends because of their mutual love and study of the German writer Atzenpoldi. When they learn that Acenbaldi, who has been missing for years, has been seen in Santa Teresa, Mexico, three of them decide to go looking for him.

The second part, "Amalfitano," is the story of a Chilean professor who moved to Santa Teresa with his family. He is also the guide of literary critics on their search for people, who are approaching the edge of insanity day by day.

The third part, "Fatt," is the story of a New York reporter sent to Santa Teresa to cover a boxing match. When he learns that the border city is experiencing a spate of gruesome murders of women, he tries to report on them, but finds it difficult.

The fourth section, "Crimes," is an archival account of one horrifying crime after another, showing the murders of women in St. Teresa between 1993 and 1997. The vast majority of murders go unsolved, and no one can stop them.

The fifth part, "Atcenpoldi", returns to the mysterious writer introduced in the opening chapter, from pre-World War II Germany to the crime-prone St. Teresa in the 1990s, and details the legendary experience of Atcenpoldi's life.

About the author

RobertoBolano (1953-2003)

Born in Chile to a father who was a truck driver and amateur boxer and a mother who taught math and statistics at school. The family moved to Mexico in 1968. Bolano returned to Chile in 1973 to join the socialist revolution but was arrested and nearly killed. After fleeing to Mexico, he and his friends promoted the "Infrarealism" movement, which combined surrealism, Dada and street theater to inspire young Latin Americans to love life and literature. In 1977, he moved to Europe, where he eventually married and settled on Spain's Polava coast. In 2003, he died in Barcelona at the age of 50 due to liver failure and could not wait for an organ transplant.

Bolano did not begin to write fiction until he was in his late forties, but he wrote an astonishing number of novels, four collections of short stories, and three collections of poetry. Published in 1998, "The Wild Detective" caused a sensation in Latin American literary circles, no less than "One Hundred years of Solitude" was published thirty years earlier. The book 2666 published after his death has triggered overwhelming praise from European and American public opinion, all of which are masterpieces, great, milestone, genius and so on. Authors such as Susan Sontag, John Banville, Colm Toibin, Stephen King, and others have praised Bolano, with critics saying that the publication of the book puts the author in the same company as Cervantes, Stern, Melville, Proust, Muzier, and Pynchon.