Nazi Literature in the Americas

"A tour de force of black humor, Roberto Bolano's Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as an encyclopedia of extremely right-wing writers." "Composed of short biographies of imaginary pan-American authors (the nations with the most representatives are Argentina, with eight, and the USA, with seven), Nazi Literature describes, in fourteen thematic sections, the writers' lives, politics, and literary works. It includes bibliographies, cross-references, and an epilogue ("For Monsters"). Although the writers are invented, they are all carefully and credibly situated in real literary worlds: his characters rebuff Ginsberg's advances in Greenwich Village, encounter Paz in Mexico City, and quarrel with Lezama Lima in Cuba. The tone of the entries is brisk and pseudoacademic, but with delicately balanced irony and pathos. Bolano does not simply use his fascist writers for target practice: he manages to sketeh character portraits that are often pathetically funny, sometimes surprisingly moving, and, on occasion, authentically chilling."--BOOK JACKET.Bolaño, Roberto is the author of 'Nazi Literature in the Americas', published 2008 under ISBN 9780811217057 and ISBN 0811217051.