“Genius . . . [This] is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting knives.” —Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review “Imaginative, full of a love for literature, and . . . exceptionally entertaining.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Nazi Literature in the Americas is Roberto Bolaño’s vertiginous, Borgesian journey into literature’s most abysmal depths. In this mock encyclopedia of imaginary poets and novelists of the pan-American far right, we are met with a procession of literary mediocrities, sycophants, narcissists, hacks, and criminals, who share the dream of ushering in the Fourth Reich. Their portraits—rendered in sharp chiaroscuro—are every bit as brilliant, menacing, and alive as Bolaño’s finest short stories. Wickedly funny and deep cutting, Nazi Literature in the Americas is also a testament to the awesome power of literature: its capacity for obsession, delusion, and violence.
Sobre o autor(a)
Bolaño, Roberto
ROBERTO BOLAÑO nasceu em 1953, em Santiago do Chile, e é considerado um dos grandes nomes da literatura mundial. Passou a adolescência no México e voltou ao seu país pouco antes do golpe que depôs Salvador Allende. Em 1977, instalou-se na Espanha, onde começou sua carreira literária. Do autor, a Companhia das Letras publicou Os detetives selvagens, 2666, Estrela distante, A literatura nazista na América, entre outros. Morreu de insuficiência hepática, na cidade de Barcelona, em 2003. |