Nazi Literature in the Americas

By: Roberto Bolano

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Paperback | 1 March 2010 | Edition Number 1

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As reviewed by Toni Whitmont in the March 2010 Booktopia Buzz. Click here to see all of Booktopia's Newsletters.

The late Roberto Bolano, whose ground-breaking fiction defined a generation of Spanish-speaking literature, is gradually finding his way in the English speaking world.

In between last year's thrillingly meandering epic, The Savage Detectives, and the masterwork, 2666, comes this small and strange book (but no stranger than the rest). Presented as a biographical encyclopedia of right-wing writers in North and South America, these short, invented lives are full of the stuff of minor literary scenes and forgotten books, with delusion and creation mixed in equal fashion. Funny, melancholy, surprisingly tender, and - once in a while - erupting into fury, Bolano spins out tale after tale with the joy of sheer invention and the burden of inescapable history.

Reviewed by Toni Whitmont, Booktopia Buzz Editor - March 2010

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This is the first UK publication of the brilliant and innovative work that made Bolano the most admired Spanish writer of his generation. 'Nazi Literature in the Americas' presents itself as an encyclopedia of extremely right-wing writers. Composed of short biographies of imaginary pan-American authors (the nations with the most representatives are Argentina, with eight, and the USA, with seven), 'Nazi Literature' describes, in fourteen thematic sections, the writers' lives, politics, and literary works. It includes bibliographies, cross-references, and an epilogue ('For Monsters'). Although the writers are invented, they are all carefully and credibly situated in real literary worlds: his characters encounter Allen Ginsberg, Octavio Paz, and Lezama Lima. Remarkably inventive, chilling, and witty, 'Nazi Literature in the Americas' offers keen insights into the workings of an extraordinarily fecund literary imagination.

Author Biography: Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. His first full-length novel, The Savage Detectives (Picador 2007), received the Heralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998. He died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty. Natasha Wimmer's translation of The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and the New York Times.

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