false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181671403m/1178230.jpg 1178230 10 A tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition, <I>Nazi Literature in the Americas</I> presents itself as a biographical dictionary of writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.<BR><BR>Composed of short biographies about imaginary writers from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Columbia, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, and the USA, <I>Nazi Literature in the Americas</I> includes descriptions of the writers' works, cross references, a bibliography, and also an epilogue ("For Monsters"). All the writers are carefully and credibly situated in real literary worlds. There are fourteen thematic sections with titles such as "Forerunners and Figures of the Anti-Enlightenment," "Magicians, Mercenaries and Miserable Individuals," and "North American Poets."<BR><BR>Brisk and pseudo-academic, <I>Nazi Literature in the Americas</I> delicately balances irony and pathos. Bolaño does not simply use his writers for target practice: in the space of a few pages he manages to sketch character portraits that are often pathetically funny, sometimes surprisingly moving, and, on occasion, authentically chilling. A remarkably inventive, funny, and disquieting sui generis novel, <I>Nazi Literature in the Americas</I> offers a clear view into the workings of one of the most extraordinarily fecund literary imaginations of our time. 1166037 1999 Nazi Literature in the Americas total:388|5:99|4:167|3:94|2:25|1:3| 388 1498 677 84 3 15 false false Tue Apr 29 23:10:13 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 09:31:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 5 false false Tue Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 04:20:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 07:30:54 -0800 2009 Christopher Wilson
Silver Spring (Maryland), 1978 -- Kalamazoo (Michigan), 2055

In 2008, Wilson was enthralled by the story of the New Jersey couple who publicly feuded with a timid grocery store establishment that unconstitutionally refused to bake a swastika cake for their son, Ado...more...]]> 5 5 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri May 23 15:41:16 -0700 2008 Fri May 23 17:16:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 4 false false Thu Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 29 17:40:34 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 05 17:08:24 -0800 2009 2666, this is exactly the kind of thing he's talking about. A series of biographical sketches of fictional western-hemisphere writers with far-right sympathies, it'll take you no more than...more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 20 16:51:08 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 11:04:30 -0700 2008
So have you heard yet about the strange saga of Chilean author Roberto Bolaño? Born in th...more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 11:50:33 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 11:50:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Apr 20 12:30:11 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 13:38:07 -0700 2008 Nazi Literature in the Americas, by Roberto Bolaño, New York, 2008. A collection of faux-criticism and thumbnail biographies of authors who never existed beyond the pages of this book. The style is direct, written for the public rather than the academic and marred by only a handful of clichés (whi...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 10 00:37:30 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 23 21:36:43 -0700 2008
Anyways, this books reads so sim...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Feb 24 17:43:25 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 25 12:04:43 -0700 2008 "The" should've been "Then".

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They say how these books are lovingly translated - there's a fawking typo in the table of contents: "Mercernaries" ?? (small miracle that it's corrected on pg. 111).

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Bolano is without question a man of the left, and one doesn't get the sense (thank God) that he's one of those lefties who underwent a right-wing political conversio...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 17 20:54:32 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 17 21:17:51 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false false Sat Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 06 15:23:21 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 27 11:18:15 -0700 2008
Honestly, I was really curious about this book--especially about all the wailey hype about "another Gabriel Garcia Marquez/Jose Borges." When will I learn? Almost anyti...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Feb 03 07:53:07 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 03 08:21:50 -0800 2008
In Spanish, "Nazi Literature in the Americas" came out in 1996, followed by "Last Evenings on Earth" in 1997, and "The Savage Det...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 22 20:19:24 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 25 23:06:59 -0800 2007 in society, per se, but rather the writer's relation, if any, to society.
not knowing bolaño's work, one could easily mistake this book for ...more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 07:37:35 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 12:58:45 -0700 2008 The Falls...both suffer from and are also enhanced by their indulgences. Both are predicated on a gimmick, practically the same gimmick actually, indeed a lovable gimmick, but one that wears thin. Or perhaps just is thin. Bolaño Lite.

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