Chilean novelist who died of liver failure at 50 after writing 2666 — an enormous novel about the murders of women in a Mexican border city that is simultaneously a philosophical inquiry into evil.
2666: five sections, loosely connected, converging on the femicides of Santa Teresa (Ciudad Juárez) — a novel about the abyss at the center of civilization. The Savage Detectives: two avant-garde poets and the literature of Latin America. By Night in Chile: a Chilean priest's deathbed confession.
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