The Third Reich: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “As a sharply observed chronicle of a man out of place in his own life and mind, it has a timelessness reminiscent of the best work of Christopher Isherwood. And that's nicely enhanced by Vance's cool, British-toned reading.

  — The Providence Sunday Journal

• Novelists tend to be remembered for their most remarkable characters, and in Udo Berger, Bolaño has created someone complex, sometimes frustrating and absolutely unforgettable . . . Compassionate, disturbing and deeply felt, [The Third Reich is] as much of a gift as anything the late author has given us.

  — Michael Schaub, NPR

• Bolaño was a writer with tricks up his sleeve, and he distributed his wiles across many genres: novellas, poetry, short stories, essays and the epic 1,100-page 2666. So what's The Third Reich like? Capering, weird, rascally and short. Imagine a cross between Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, the CLUE board game and a wargames fanzine. It's a scathing novel with a lot of exuberance to it, not unlike the man who wrote it . . . The Third Reich is giddily funny, but it is also prickly and bizarre enough to count among Bolaño's first-rate efforts.

  — The Economist

• [Bolaño] makes you feel changed for having read him; he adjusts your angle of view on the world.

  — Ben Richards, The Guardian on Roberto Bolaño

• When I read Bolaño I think: Everything is possible again.

  — Nicole Krauss on Roberto Bolaño

• Not since Gabriel García Márquez . . . has a Latin American redrawn the map of world literature so emphatically as Roberto Bolaño does . . . It's no exaggeration to call him a genius.

  — Ilan Stavans, The Washington Post Book World on Roberto Bolaño

• [Bolaño's] work . . . is as vital, thrilling and life-enhancing as anything in modern fiction.

  — Christopher Goodwin, The Sunday Times (London) on Roberto Bolaño

• Novelists have been smashing high and low together for a century, but Bolaño does it with the force of a supercollider.

  — Daniel Zalewski, The New Yorker on Roberto Bolaño

• [Bolaño] has the natural storyteller's gift--but more important, he has the power to lend an extraordinary glamour to the activities of making love and making poetry.

  — Edmund White on Roberto Bolaño

• A successor to Borges, García Márquez, and Julio Cortázar.

  — Siddhartha Deb, Harper's Magazine on Roberto Bolaño

• The most influential and admired novelist of his generation.

  — Susan Sontag on Roberto Bolaño