Author | Roberto Bolaño |
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Original title | El Tercer Reich |
Translator | Natasha Wimmer |
Language | Spanish |
Publisher | Anagrama (Spanish) Farrar, Straus and Giroux (English) |
Publication date | 2010 |
Publication place | Chile |
Published in English | 2011 |
Media type | |
Pages | 360 |
ISBN | 8433972057 |
The Third Reich (El Tercer Reich in Spanish) is a novel by the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño written in 1989. It was discovered among his papers following his death and published in Spanish in 2010.[1] An English translation by Natasha Wimmer was published in November 2011.
The book belongs to both the "Hispanic Narratives"[2] collection and the "Compact" series, from the same publisher;[3] its title is another name sometimes used for Nazi Germany. The subject of Nazism is frequent in the author's bibliography, who had extensive historical knowledge about it.[4] He had previously dedicated novels related to this subject, such as Nazi literature in America and Distant Star.