A review by graywacke
The Third Reich by Roberto Bolaño

4.0

Stumbled across the first part in a Paris Review. I haven't read Bolano before. I expected something clever, or cynical or somehow ridiculous in some crazy way, but instead I was surprised to find how gentle the writing is. It's still complex and interesting, but he wrote this softly and I got carried away hanging out on the Spanish beach following Udo's quirky collapse. (written in 1989, but only discovered and published posthumously)