Nazi Literature in the Americas

2010 | Fiction & Poetry

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. 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

Roberto Bolano (Author)