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A playful and entirely original novel masquerading as a mini-encyclopedia of nonexistent Nazi literature in our hemisphere by Roberto Bolaño: "his generation's premier Latin-American writer" ( The New York Times ). A tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in... read more
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- Ramirez Hoffman: Add a description of this character.
- Irma
- Edelmira Thompson
- Barreda
- Luz Mendiluce
- Romero
- Gonzalez
- Poe
- Perez Mason
- Claudia
- Mirebalais
- Schiaffino
- Fonseca
- Norberto
- Hitler
- Hauptman
- O'bannon
- Gunther O'connell
- Venegas
- Emilio Stevens
- Lemercier
- Lacouture
- Zabaleta
- Cepeda
- Concepcion
- Zubieta
- Cherniakovski
- Caceres
- Scotti Cabello
- Fontaine
- Sebastian Mendiluce
- Cecilio Macaduck
- Max Kasimir
- Ginsberg
First Sentence edit
At fifteen, Edelmira Thompson published her first book, To Daddy, which earned her a modest place in the vast gallery of lady poets active in Buenos Aires high society.
Table of Contents edit
The Mendiluce Clan
Itinerant Heroes or the Fragility of Mirrors
Forerunners and Figures of the Anti-Enlightenment
Poètes Maudits
Wandering Women of Letters
Two Germans at the Ends of the Earth
Speculative and Science Fiction
Magicians, Mercenaries and Miserable Creatures
The Many Masks of Max Mirebalais
North American Poets
The Aryan Brotherhood
The Fabulous Schiaffino Boys
The Infamous Ramírez Hoffman
Epilogue for Monsters
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: New Directions First Edition
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 0811217051
Page Count: 280
Publisher: New Directions First Edition
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 0811217051
Page Count: 280
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- Dewey: 863.64
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