Tracce di Russia in 2666 di Roberto Bolaño: “La parte di Arcimboldi”. Per una ricognizione

References to pre-revolutionary, revolutionary and Stalinist Russia are numerous in the fifth and last part of 2666 by Roberto Bolaño. The author himself declared it, shortly before his death, in the last interview he gave to Andrés Gómez in July 2003. The purpose of our article is to reconstruct Bolaño’s Russia in a space-time perspective and, first of all, to outline Russian cultural and literary dimension. We shall therefore try to trace in the text the innumerable references –which in the text are more or less clear and explicit– to those Russian works and authors who have marked the past centuries and contributed to the creation of the composite Bolañan universe as it emerges from the pages of his last great work.