Category Archives: chilean

A continent full of writers and publishers

Posted on January 25, 2014 by Kelvin Smith

Roberto Bolaño creates a whole world of writers and publishers in Nazi Literature in the Americas, and they are helpfully listed in the final chapter called “Epilogue for Monsters”. With names like Black and White, Black Pistol, City in Flames, … Continue reading →

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We aren’t laughing any more

Posted on July 4, 2013 by Kelvin Smith

The visceral realists in The Savage Detectives sometimes hang out with publishers.  In one short section, a variety of characters speak from the Feria del Libro, Madrid, 1994.  They variously end their interventions with comments that what “begins as comedy … Continue reading →

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Like the pyramids of the Aztecs

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Kelvin Smith

In Roberto Bolaño’s 2666, Benno von Archimboldi is published by Mr. Bubis’s publishing house in Hamburg. Mr. Bubis, re-establishing his company after the second world war, takes on the pseudonymous novelist’s first book with the assurance that “the book would … Continue reading →

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