Roberto Bolaño - The Third Reich

“That’s good for you,” said Rex Douglas brusquely.

“Yes, if we hold on to what we’ve won, which won’t be easy,” said the guy from Cologne.

The others nodded. Praises were sung of a French player who was leading the team playing the USSR, and immediately they began to make plans for the dinner that night, another “brother-hood banquet,” like all the rest. Unnoticed, I slipped away from the group. I went back to the Stuttgart booth, which was empty except for the projects sponsored by Conrad, and I straightened it up a little, adjusting a magazine here, a game there, and left the convention hall without a sound.

Roberto Bolañowas born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Mexico City. He is the author of The Savage Detectives , which received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize, and 2666 , which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.

The Secret of Evil

Between Parentheses

The Return

The Insufferable Gaucho

Antwerp

Monsieur Pain

The Skating Rink

2666

Nazi Literature in the Americas

Distant Star

The Savage Detectives

Amulet

By Night in Chile

Last Evenings on Earth

The Romantic Dogs

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Originally published in 2010 by Editorial Anagrama, Spain, as El Tercer Reich .

This book was serialized, in slightly different form, in The Paris Review .

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Bolaño, Roberto, 1953–2003

The Third Reich / Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Natasha Wimmer.

Translation of: El Tercer Reich.

ISBN 978-0-670-06400-7

I. Wimmer, Natasha II. Title.

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