Nazi Literature in the Americas

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Nazi Literature in the Americas is a satirical, fictional encyclopedia by Roberto Bolaño that invents a constellation of right-wing extremist writers across the American continent to explore themes of literature, ideology, and marginality.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional encyclopedia
novel
satirical work
adaptedInto Distant Star NERFINISHED
author Roberto Bolaño NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Chile NERFINISHED
criticalReception acclaimed
EnglishEditionPublisher New Directions NERFINISHED
EnglishTranslator Chris Andrews NERFINISHED
explores construction of literary canons
erasure and disappearance
intersection of art and fascism
feature cross-references among fictional writers
fictional bibliographies
invented authors
mock-scholarly tone
firstPublicationYear 1996
genre encyclopedic fiction
fiction
satire
hasFictionalDevice imaginary literary history of the Americas
hasSection The Infamous Ramírez Hoffman NERFINISHED
The Mendiluce Clan NERFINISHED
influenced Distant Star NERFINISHED
literaryForm prose
literaryMovement Latin American post-boom NERFINISHED
narrativeStructure encyclopedic entries
narrativeStyle pseudo-biographical
notableCharacter Carlos Ramírez Hoffman NERFINISHED
Ramírez Hoffman NERFINISHED
originalLanguage Spanish
originalTitle La literatura nazi en América NERFINISHED
partOf Roberto Bolaño bibliography
publisher Seix Barral NERFINISHED
relatedWork Distant Star NERFINISHED
setting 20th century
Americas NERFINISHED
style catalog-like
deadpan
ironical
theme fascism
ideology
literary marginality
myth-making
right-wing extremism
the relationship between literature and politics
violence
translatedInto English

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Roberto Bolaño notableWork Nazi Literature in the Americas