Reich on Fire
Today on Tablet
December 06, 2011
Nazis seem to pop up nearly everywhere in Roberto Bolaño’s ouevre, including his most recently translated work, The Third Reich. Today in Tablet Magazine, Jacob Silverman argues that the late Latin Amerian author’s obsession with them reflected his broader engagement with right-wing totalitarianism—and its spiritual cousin, literary transcendence.
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.