Reviews

Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño

jamesreadsgenre's review

dark funny reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

dick_murph's review

funny mysterious fast-paced

3.5

msgtdameron's review

challenging mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.0

This work claims to be biographies of Latin American poets with some Mexican and U.S. poets thrown in.  All the poets have fascist ideas and intentions.  But, here is the problem: about half the biographies have death dates for the poets that fall after the date of first publishing.  Also there is a very detailed and potentially accurate list of Latino poets and their works, but again that post publication death dates.  Bolano is not Nostradamus so I have to believe that some of these Bios are just it would be nice stories, which takes away  from the idea that these are bio's.  The work is all very confusing.

prog51's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

alidy's review

dark sad slow-paced

1.0

jorgequesada's review against another edition

funny mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

diegobrando's review

dark funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

annawilhelm17's review

dark reflective medium-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

chillcox15's review

3.0

I love the idea here, but the execution feels a bit rote. Bolaño is obviously taking from J. Rudolfo Wilcock's The Temple of Iconoclasts, but that was a bit more fun and unexpected. It's almost as if this is the direct mid-point between that influence and the powerful monotony of the catalog of femicides in 2666: it's a bit banal without rending that much awful beauty and anguish out of the banality.

lilly71490's review

adventurous dark relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25