Nazi Literature in the Americas

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Nazi Literature in the Americas
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Roberto Bolano
Translated by Chris Andrews
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:272
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 131
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Parodies and spoofs
ISBN/Barcode 9780330510516
ClassificationsDewey:863.64
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Pan Macmillan
Imprint Picador
Publication Date 1 October 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Featuring several mass-murdering authors, two fraternal writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring and a poet who crafts his lines in the air with sky writing, Nazi Literature in the Americas details the lives of a rich cast of characters from one of the most extraordinarily fecund imaginations in world literature. Written with acerbic wit and virtuosic flair, this encyclopaedic cavalcade of fictional pan-American authors is the terrifyingly humorous and remarkably inventive masterpiece which made Bolano famous throughout the Spanish-speaking world.

Author Biography

Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He spent much of his adult life in Mexico and Spain, where he died at the age of fifty. His novel, The Savage Detectives was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the Washington Post and the New York Times Book Review. His posthumous masterpiece, 2666, won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Reviews

One of the most exhilarating, intense and dangerous voices to emerge from South America . . . [Nazi Literature in the Americas] is a parade of delusional, mediocre, vicious and pitiable poetasters, a scabrous parlour game that reveals much about literature, power and complicity. Very funny indeed. * Scotland on Sunday * The triumphant posthumous entrance of Roberto Bolano into the English-language literary firmament has been one of the sensations of the decade. * Sunday Times * The best and weirdest kind of literary game . . . This artful alternate history of modern literature, stitched together from loose ends, half-told stories and deft episodes of pastiche, is a strangely profound place to get lost. * Financial Times *