It seemed like a pretty obvious reference to 2666 to me. The first part of the book has a number of dream sequences where its characters will just list off philosophers and put them into groups and connect them with lines. Definitely took me a few days to get through that book.
It´s very well written but I can´t stand(nor understand) the way writers expand the thickness of the books just adding nonsense parts to the stories. And they get rewarded by that!
Pamuk´s "Black book" is a 2 inch thick book of Istanbul streets descriptions, and... that´s it.
I forced myself to finish it because I thought:"there should be something else, is not possible that all this is for nothing". I was wrong.
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