El Tercer Reich/ The Third Reich

from dchaikin

29. The Third Reich by Roberto Bolaño (2011, 288 pages, read June 24 - July 2) translated from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer I stumbled across this in the spring 2011 issue of The Paris review. The novel was found posthumously among Bolaño's papers (and only partially typed). The writing is dated to ...

from espadana

Not long after finishing the impressive "The Savage Detectives", yesterday I finished reading "The Third Reich", Roberto Bolaño's posthumous book that was launched this year. The book was written in 1989 (therefore prior to "...Detectives" and to the monumental "2666", his last oeuvre), but it is...

from jorgearanda

This early Bolaño novel is self-consciously immersed in the world of wargames. "The Third Reich" of the title seems to be the game "The Rise and Decline of the Third Reich", and the gaming session that the book narrates seems to make sense and to be mostly reproducible on a real board. Although I...

from byebyelibrary

This is a book so strange, yet conventional, yet transcendent. Bolano has a strange motif of Germany and Germans running through all of his works. This book is the apex of this motif, a brilliant sort of death and rebirth in Del Mar. I am baffled by those who call this a throwaway, published only...

from jorgearanda

This early Bolaño novel is self-consciously immersed in the world of wargames. "The Third Reich" of the title seems to be the game "The Rise and Decline of the Third Reich", and the gaming session that the book narrates seems to make sense and to be mostly reproducible on a real board. Although I...