Nazi Literature in the Americas

by Roberto Bolaño Narrated by Jonathan Davis

Overview

“Imaginative, full of a love for literature, and . . . exceptionally entertaining.” -The Washington Post

Mass-murdering authors. Writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring. A pilot who crafts his poetry in the sky.

A tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of pan-American writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Terrifyingly witty and remarkably inventive, Nazi Literature in the Americas is the virtuosic, one-of-a-kind masterpiece that brought Bolaño fame throughout the Spanish-speaking world.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Editorial Reviews

Stacey D'Erasmo

Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked, invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting knives. As if he were Borges's wisecracking, sardonic son, Bolaño has meticulously created a tightly woven network of far-right litterateurs and purveyors of belles lettres for whom Hitler was beauty, truth and great lost hope. Cross-referenced, complete with bibliography and a biographical list of secondary figures, Nazi Literature is composed of a series of sketches, the compressed life stories of writers in North and South America who never existed, but all too easily could have. Goose-stepping caricatures a la "The Producers" they are not; instead, they are frighteningly subtle, poignant and plausible.
—The New York Times

Michael Dirda

…imaginative, full of a love for literature, and, unlikely as it may seem, exceptionally entertaining…playing a tricky game, carefully balancing mockery and black humor against our natural sense of revulsion…Roberto Bolano is worth discovering, worth reading—and even worth all the trouble of having to explain why it is that you are toting around a book called Nazi Literature in the Americas.
—The Washington Post

From the Publisher

"Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting knives. As if he were Borges’s wisecracking, sardonic son, Bolaño has meticulously created a tightly woven network of far-right litterateurs and purveyors of belles lettres for whom Hitler was beauty, truth, and the great lost hope. "— Stacey D’Erasmo The New York Times Book Review

"It is imaginative, full of a love for literature, and, unlikely as it may seem, exceptionally entertaining."— Michael Dirda The Washington Post

"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. "— Publishers Weekly

"With his meticulous, expertly crafted idiosyncrasies Bolaño has created another universe here, a breathing, thriving world."— Ben Granger Spike Magazine

"Masterfully executed…the book is wildly funny… [a] wickedly entertaining and evocative masterwork."— Robert Leiter Jewish Exponent

Product Details

BN ID:	2940195242077
Publisher:	Macmillan Audio
Publication date:	10/07/2025
Edition description:	Unabridged