The Third Reich
a novel
by Roberto Bolaño and Natasha Wimmer
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"On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals--the Wolf, the Lamb, and El Quemado--and to the darker side of life in a resort town. Late one night, Charly disappears without a trace, and Udo's well-ordered life is thrown into upheaval; when Ingeborg and Hanna return to their lives in Germany, he refuses to leave the hotel. Soon, he and El Quemado are enmeshed in a round of Third Reich, his favorite World War II strategy game, and Udo discovers that the game's consequences may be all too real. Written in 1989 and found among Roberto Bolaño's papers after his death, The Third Reich is a stunning exploration of memory and violence. Reading this quick, visceral novel, we see a world-class writer coming into his own--and exploring for the first time the themes that would define his masterpieces The Savage Detectives and 2666"--
"A comedic novel from the author of The Savage Detectives and 2666"--
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War games, Fiction, Beaches, Chilean literature, Missing persons, Germans, Maniobras de guerra, Alemanes, Ficción, Personas desaparecidas, Missing persons, fiction, Spain, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, FICTION / Literary, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, thrillers, Fiction, thrillers, generalPlaces
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The Third Reich: a novel
2011, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
- 1st American ed.
0374275629 9780374275624
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Udo Berger tiene veinticinco años y su pasión son los juegos de guerra. También tiene independencia económica y una novia a la que ama, Ingeborg. La pareja pasa unos días en el lugar de la Costa Brava donde él veraneaba con su familia. Udo hace instalar en su habitación una gran mesa donde piensa nuevas estrategias para el Tercer Reich, su juego. Y por la noche van a una discoteca y conocen a Charly y Hanna, otra pareja de alemanes. Cuando bajan a la playa, el imprevisible Charly les introduce en la comunidad del lugar, plena de turbios personajes como el Lobo o el Cordero, que tanto pueden ser trabajadores de verano como mafiosos; Frau Else, la guapa encargada del hotel, o el Quemado, un hombre desfigurado y del que nadie sabe nada, aunque insinúan que es extranjero, que fue torturado en su país... El Tercer Reich, un texto inédito escrito en el año 1989, es una espléndida novela de la primera etapa de Roberto Bolaño, el feliz hallazgo de un ejercicio narrativo donde el autor despliega algunos de sus grandes temas, como las extrañas formas del nazismo, o que la cultura –los juegos, o la literatura– es la realidad.
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