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El Tercer Reich / The Third Reich - by Roberto Bolaño (Paperback)

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  • En El Tercer Reich Roberto Bolaño da voz a diversos personajes, disponiéndolos en una suerte de tablero en el que se libra la guerra más antigua de todas: la del nazismo, la de la decadente cultura occidental, la del ser humano contra sí mismo.Se conoce por «juego de guerra» aquel que recrea y simula un enfrentamiento armado a cualquier nivel, sujetándose a reglas para el desarrollo del mismo.
  • About the Author: Roberto Bolaño nació en Santiago, Chile, en 1953.
  • 368 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Mystery & Detective

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About the Book



Udo Berger, a failed writer, travels to a small resort on Spain's Costa Brava, where he befriends another German couple. But when one of his friends disappears after a night out with two sinister local characters, Udo's serene life is disrupted.



Book Synopsis



En El Tercer Reich Roberto Bolaño da voz a diversos personajes, disponiéndolos en una suerte de tablero en el que se libra la guerra más antigua de todas: la del nazismo, la de la decadente cultura occidental, la del ser humano contra sí mismo.

Se conoce por «juego de guerra» aquel que recrea y simula un enfrentamiento armado a cualquier nivel, sujetándose a reglas para el desarrollo del mismo. El alemán Udo Berger es campeón de esta disciplina en su país. Los juegos de guerra son al tiempo su profesión y su obsesión; ocupan su vida e invaden su pensamiento a todas horas. Incluso durante el viaje que realiza con su novia Ingeborg a la Costa Brava, donde él había veraneado en su infancia, se hace instalar una gran mesa en la habitación del hotel para pensar en las estrategias de su nuevo juego, El Tercer Reich.

Una noche, sin embargo, Udo e Ingeborg conocen a otra pareja de alemanes, Charly y Hanna, que les introducirán a un mundo oculto tras las playas y el sol. Un mundo poblado por personajes de dudosa reputación, pasados oscuros y futuros aún más enigmáticos.

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war games 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; while 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, Udo's 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.



Review Quotes




"Uno de los más grandes e influyentes escritores modernos". --The New York Times Book Review

"One of the greatest and most influential modern writers." --The New York Times Book Review

"Novelists have been smashing high and low together for a century, but Bolaño does it with the force of a supercollider." --The New Yorker



About the Author



Roberto Bolaño nació en Santiago, Chile, en 1953. Pasó gran parte de su vida en México y en España, donde murió a la edad de cincuenta años. Es autor de numerosas obras de ficción, no ficción y poesía. Su libro Los detectives salvajes ganó el Premio Rómulo Gallegos de Novela y fue uno de los Mejores Libros del 2007 para The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times y The New York Times Book Review. En 2008, recibió póstumamente el Premio de Ficción del National Book Critics Circle por 2666.

Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953, but spent most of his life in Mexico and Spain, where he died at age 50. He is the author of numerous works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, including Los detectives salvajes (The Savage Detectives), Estrella distante (Distant Star), and Nocturno de Chile (By Night in Chile). In 2008 he posthumously received the National Book Critics Circle Award for 2666.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.56 Inches (W) x .81 Inches (D)
Weight: .48 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 368
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Mystery & Detective
Publisher: Vintage Espanol
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Language: Spanish
Street Date: September 26, 2017
TCIN: 94450670
UPC: 9780307476142
Item Number (DPCI): 247-12-2518
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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