{"product_id":"2940169911145","title":"Nazi Literature in the Americas","description":"\u003cp\u003eA tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition, \u003ci\u003eNazi Literature in the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e presents itself as a biographical dictionary of writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComprising short biographies about imaginary writers from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Columbia, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, and the United States, \u003ci\u003eNazi Literature in the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e includes descriptions of the writers¿ works, cross-references, a bibliography, and also an ¿Epilogue for Monsters.¿ All the writers are carefully and credibly situated in real literary worlds. There are fourteen thematic sections with titles such as ¿Forerunners and Figures of the Anti-Enlightenment,¿ ¿Magicians, Mercenaries, and Miserable Individuals,¿ and ¿North American Poets.¿\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrisk and pseudoacademic, \u003ci\u003eNazi Literature in the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e delicately balances irony and pathos. Bolaño does not simply use his writers for target practice: in the space of a few pages he manages to sketch character portraits that are often pathetically funny, sometimes surprisingly moving, and, on occasion, authentically chilling. A remarkably inventive, funny, and disquieting sui generis novel, \u003ci\u003eNazi Literature in the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e offers a clear view into the workings of one of the most extraordinarily fecund literary imaginations of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47116971475184,"sku":"2940169911145","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169911145_p0.jpg?v=1769902781","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169911145","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}