{"id":259326,"date":"2008-01-10T14:55:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T14:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/01\/10\/review-of-bolanos-nazi-literature-in-the-americas\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:34:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:34:42","slug":"review-of-bolanos-nazi-literature-in-the-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/01\/10\/review-of-bolanos-nazi-literature-in-the-americas\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of Bolano's Nazi Literature in the Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joshua Cohen has one of the first (hopefully of many) reviews of Roberto Bolano’s Nazi Literature in the Americas<\/i> in yesterday’s Jewish Daily Forward<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

A surprise to probably no one, the book sounds awesome:<\/p>\n

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Nazi Literature in the Americas,<\/i> first published in Spanish in 1996, is not a work of nonfiction, though it reads as an encyclopedic history, or a biographical dictionary of criminous thought. [. . .] <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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What Bola\u00f1o has given us is a mock reference text, an indispensible companion to the work of collaborationist poets and novelists in the Americas \u2014 writers who, whether actively or through aesthetic allegiance, kept company with the Nazi cause. Included and representative are entries on \u201cThe Mendiluce Clan\u201d: Edelmira Thompson de Mendiluce, an austere \u201clady poet\u201d; Juan Mendiluce Thompson, her son, an angry novelist who denounced Julio Cort\u00e1zar and his mentor Borges, \u201cwhose stories, so he claimed, were \u2018parodies of parodies\u2019\u201d; and Luz Mendiluce Thompson, the family\u2019s obese poet-daughter, who cherishes throughout her life a photograph of her baby self being cradled by Hitler.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

One of the best aspects of the review is the passing reference to a joke manifesto Bolano once wrote:<\/p>\n

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Bola\u00f1o seems to have summarized his own life in the prankish manifesto for the literary movement he founded, \u201cInfrarealism\u201d: \u201cExperience at full tilt, self-consuming structures, stark raving contradictions . . .”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Later in this document (of which Bola\u00f1o was the sole author and signatory), he wrote: \u201cRisk is always elsewhere. The true poet is always leaving himself behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joshua Cohen has one of the first (hopefully of many) reviews of Roberto Bolano’s Nazi Literature in the Americas in yesterday’s Jewish Daily Forward. A surprise to probably no one, the book sounds awesome: Nazi Literature in the Americas, first published in Spanish in 1996, is not a work of nonfiction, though it reads as […]<\/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":[1836,9436,9426,2706,1646,756],"class_list":["post-259326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-jewish-daily-forward","tag-joshua-cohen","tag-nazi-literature-in-the-americas","tag-review","tag-roberto-bolano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259326","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=259326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314316,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259326\/revisions\/314316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}