Nazi Literature in the Americas, Roberto Bolano
Nazi Literature in the Americas, Roberto Bolano
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Nazi Literature in the Americas

Author: Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews

Narrator: Jonathan Davis

Unabridged: 6 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/07/2025


Synopsis

“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.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

About Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City, where he was a founder of the Infrarealist poetry movement. His first full-length novel, The Savage Detectives, received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998. Roberto Bolaño died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.

About Chris Andrews

Chris Andrews has translated books of prose fiction by César Aira, Roberto Bolaño, Liliana Colanzi, and Ágota Kristóf, among others. He is also the author of How to Do Things with Forms and The Oblong Plot.

About Jonathan Davis

Jonathan Davis, who has narrated more than 150 audiobooks, has received widespread critical acclaim for his performances in a variety of genres. He's been nominated for an Audie Award in the Thriller / Suspense category, and he's read several AudioFile Earphones Award-winning titles. He has also narrated over thirty Star Wars titles. Jonathan has read such works as Snow Crash, The Stranger, Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, and The Shadow of the Wind. He also performs voice-over work and is the voice of Vladimir Lem in the Editors Choice Award-winning video game "Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne." Jonathan grew up in Puerto Rico and speaks Spanish, Portuguese, and Hebrew.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Fabian on April 22, 2020

The artists, writers, poets which inhabit this lexicon-type novel breathe the air of history, and all lead individual destinies never devoid of woe. The pursuit of art is presented warts-&-all, & is as realistic of art as it is about the appreciation of art. "Nazi Literature in the Americas" is one p......more

Goodreads review by TK421 on March 14, 2013

Few novels bring me to a place that is best described as that plane one is trapped in before waking from a very lucid dream. You know the place where you can taste the air, feel the colors, where reality and imagination are embraced so thoroughly that borders blend and realign themselves. NAZI LITER......more

Goodreads review by charlie on July 26, 2025

impossible pour moi de mettre autre chose que cinq étoiles à ce bouquin dont je ne saurai désormais trop recommander la découverte à chacun.e d'entre vous. le fascisme a ses dictateurs, ses grands théoriciens, ses démagogues à toute puissance qui enchaînent les mots clés et les déclarations sans équ......more

Goodreads review by brian on April 30, 2008

i spend way too much time making my bookshelves pretty: pruning, arranging, designing... i'm regularly plagued by some pretty critical issues: chronologically? by author? color? size? (y'see... unlike the rest of my shitty and privileged generation who gets all pantiebunched about evil corporations......more

Goodreads review by Barry on September 29, 2015

This is an encyclopedia of writers associated with the Nazi Literature movement of the 20th century, focusing mainly on those living in the Americas. It gives each writer a couple of pages of biography and discusses most of their major works. All of it is backed up by an extensive index and a vast b......more