{"id":258596,"date":"2007-12-12T16:56:28","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T16:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/12\/12\/pw-review-of-bolano\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:34:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:34:48","slug":"pw-review-of-bolano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/12\/12\/pw-review-of-bolano\/","title":{"rendered":"PW Review of Bolano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Galleys of Bolano&#8217;s <i>Nazi Literature in the Americas<\/i> have been circulating for a few months now, and everyone I&#8217;ve talked with absolutely loves the book. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6510177.html?nid=3318\"><i>Publishers Weekly<\/i><\/a> has the first actual review I&#8217;ve seen of this, and the reviewer tends to agree:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The title chosen by Bola\u00f1o (1953\u20132003) for this slim, fake encyclopedia is not wholly tongue-in-cheek: given the very real presence of former (and not-so-former) Nazis in Latin America following <span class=\"caps\">WWII<\/span>, this book, despite being fiction, still had j\u2019accuse-like power when first published in 1996. The poets described herein, though invented, seem\u2014even at their most absurd\u2014plausible, which is the secret to this sly book\u2019s devastating effect. [. . .] The wild inventiveness of Bola\u00f1o\u2019s evocations places them squarely in the realm of Borges\u2014another writer who draws enormous power from the movement between the fictive and the real.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galleys of Bolano&#8217;s Nazi Literature in the Americas have been circulating for a few months now, and everyone I&#8217;ve talked with absolutely loves the book. Publishers Weekly has the first actual review I&#8217;ve seen of this, and the reviewer tends to agree: The title chosen by Bola\u00f1o (1953\u20132003) for this slim, fake encyclopedia is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[8756,1836,2706,1646],"class_list":["post-258596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-bolano","tag-cwp","tag-nazi-literature-in-the-americas","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314336,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258596\/revisions\/314336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}