Nazi Literature in the Americas

Roberto Bolaño

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Vintage
03 December 2024

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolano's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time.

Mass-murdering authors. Writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring. A pilot who crafts his poetry in the sky.

A tour de force of black humour and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of pan-American writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Terrifyingly witty and remarkably inventive, this is the virtuosic, one-of-a-kind masterpiece which brought Bolano fame throughout the Spanish-speaking world.

TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS

'The best and weirdest kind of literary game... A strangely profound place to get lost' Financial Times

'A darkly comic celebration of the wilder horizons of writing, good, plodding, lunatic and terrible' London Review of Books

By: Roberto Bolaño
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 184g
ISBN: 9781784879471
ISBN 10: 1784879479
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 03 December 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile in 1953 and died in Catalonia in 2003. He was widely regarded as the essential Latin American writer of our age. He was best known for his novels (including The Savage Detectives, which won a number of prestigious literary awards, Nocturno de Chile, translated as By Night in Chile, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award) and his short stories, first published in English in Last Evenings on Earth.

Reviews for Nazi Literature in the Americas

The triumphant posthumous entrance of Roberto Bolaño into the English-language literary firmament has been one of the sensations of the decade. * Sunday Times * An artful alternate history of modern literature * Financial Times * Bolaño's impressive novel triumphs * Observer * An extraordinary fantasia * Independent * Lucid, insane, deadly serious, wildly playful -- Nicole Krauss