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Nazi Literature in the Americas

by Roberto Bolaño

A tour de force of black humor, composed of short biographies of imaginary pan-American authors, providing sketch character portraits that are often pathetically funny, sometimes surprisingly moving, and on occasion, authentically chilling. "La literatura nazi en América es, en palabras de su autor, 'una antología vagamente enciclopédica de la literatura filonazi producida en América desde 1930 hasta 2010, un contexto cultural que, a diferencia de Europa, no tiene conciencia de lo que es y donde se cae con frecuencia en la desmesura'. Escrita a imitación de los diccionarios de literatura, esta ingeniosísima obra de ficción disfrazada de manual se compone de las más variadas reseñas dedicadas a la vida y la obra de autores inexistentes de una literatura inexistente, y constituye una excelente parodia de la historia real de la literatura iberoamericana."--Back cover.

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?