Nazi Literature in the Americas

This is...not for me. I’ve tried and I’ve tried, I just can’t figure this guy out.

Yes!

Bolaño crafts a fictional taxonomy of myriad literary scenes that intersect in various ways with Nazi ideology from ~1870 to ~2040. What's notable about this book is how he creates a range of authors and poets covering the spectrum of fascist ideology, without any of them existing as an "exemplary figure" of an American Nazi Author (as fascism has never been much for clear definitions). None of the characters seem too far-fetched, excepting for maybe the skywriter (though one could easily see D'annunzio pulling such a stunt if skywriting had come about 20 years earlier). There are no Timothy McVeighs (after all, he wasn't much of a literary figure), but some of them share more than a few characteristics with William Luther Pierce (or, in a different key, Leni Riefenstahl).