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by Roberto Bolano (Author)
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The title chosen by Bolaño (1953–2003) for this slim, fake encyclopedia is not wholly tongue-in-cheek: given the very real presence of former (and not-so-former) Nazis in Latin America following WWII, this book, despite being fiction, still had j'accuse-like power when first published in 1996. The poets described herein, though invented, seem—even at their most absurd—plausible, which is the secret to this sly book's devastating effect. And as one proceeds from an entry on Edelmira Thompson de Mendiluce (In high spirits, Edelmira asked for the Führer's advice: which would be the most appropriate school for her sons?) to one on Carlos Ramírez Hoffman (His passage through literature left a trail of blood and several questions posed by a mute), it becomes clear that there is a single witness to all of these terrible figures, one who has spent time in one of Pinochet's prisons and is bent on coolly totting up the crimes of fascism's literary perpetrators. Some readers will recognize figures and episodes from Bolaño's other books (including The Savage Detectives and Distant Star). The wild inventiveness of Bolaño's evocations places them squarely in the realm of Borges—another writer who draws enormous power from the movement between the fictive and the real. (Feb.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Ilan Stavans, The Los AngelesTimes Book Review

One of the most courageous and imaginative books produced in the region since García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars ...and in Mexico they all met B Traven, Dec 21 2009
By Robin Benson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nazi Literature In The Americas (Hardcover)
Bolano's book provides a literary pastiche of dotty Nazi scribes in the Americas but primarily South America and it's to Bolano's credit that he fleshes out these fictional writers with credibility though I thought in a rather gentle (or should that be subtle?) way.

The thirty-one writers have their lives and personalities revealed according to the (fictional) information available, some get a page or two others several. Three of my favorites are Harry Sibelius who wrote 'The True Son of Job', 1,333 pages darkly mirroring Arnold J. Toynbee's 'Hitler's Europe'. Argentino 'Fatso' Schiaffino, the only writer to mix national socialism and football and get away with it and Thomas R Murchison, a scam artist and all-round opportunist who started the first literary magazine devoted to the Aryan Brotherhood though he always referred to them as 'an order for knights of misfortune'. The last chapter: Epilogue for Monsters on secondary figures, publishing houses, magazines and books is where Bolano really excels.

Bolano wrote the book in 1998 and since his death in 2003 the title has grown in stature like the rest of his books. Literary satire seems a difficult genre to work well, a title I've always enjoyed is 'The Pooh Perplex' by Frederick Crews from decades ago but with 'Nazi Literature in the Americas' Roberto Bolano has succeeded admirably.









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5.0 out of 5 stars A genius of the 'literary grotesque', Jan 26 2009
By ES (Ottawa, ON) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nazi Literature In The Americas (Hardcover)
Bolaño's 'excursion into the literary grotesque': a richly inventive fictional Brief Lives of (mostly) Latin American writers who flirt with the local version of fascism. It's a long list, beginning with a poet who keeps a photo of herself as a baby held in Hitler's arms, and running through an astonishing array of star authors, hacks and oddballs - football hooligans who write experimental verse, socialite-religious allegorists, multiple plagiarists... united, in most cases, by a soft spot for phrases like 'Communist Menace' and 'The Fatherland'.

This world is at once chllling and extremely funny because Bolaño takes his subjects at their own valuation ('The Orient... inspired Irma to write the new poems of The Virgin of Asia, steely sonnets fearlessly probing the open wound of modernity'), with just a touch of irony ('The solution, it now seemed to her, was to return to sixteenth century Spain').

The series of very short, Borges-dry narratives produces an unease that's the result of an absence. These ultimately absurd people seem to exist, with one slight exception, in a different Latin America from the one where real violence was unleashed by the various military dictatorships. The unease is resolved in the last story, which shifts tones - leftward, you could say, and with an access of emotion that isn't excessive, but is noticeable for having been missing from the rest of the book - to describe a man who revolutionizes Chile's poetry after the Pinochet coup by uniting the trades of writing and killing.

Anyone who's spent time on any literary scene will enjoy these razor-sharp profiles of provincial writers who, no matter how untalented or unsuccessful, even futile, they are, take themselves very, very seriously. Bolaño enters into their spirit by providing lengthy appendices of minor characters (like John Castellano: 'Dubbed The Duce of Alabama by Argentino Schiaffino'), books and periodicals (such as Iron Heart, a Chilean Nazi literary magazine 'which survived... not in an Antarctic submarine base, as its ardent instigators would have preferred, but in Punta Arenas'). It's ridiculous and beautiful all at once, like a rich man's folly.

Nazi Literature in the Americas was written in Spanish in 1996 and this past year was translated - a good, demotic, fluid translation - on the strength of the emerging popularity of Bolaño's more recent 2666. In between Bolaño died, in 2003 at the age of 50. I think he was a genius.
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