I had some time to kill this afternoon on Florida street so I wandered into a few bookstores. One of the most bizarre guidebooks to Argentina that caught my eye was titled Bariloche Nazi. Perhaps the highlight of the book is that it reveals the purported location of the Bariloche home of Adolph Hitler and Eva Braun after they escaped from post-World War II Germany….. Uh, yeah.
That’s not really the kind of thing I want to spend my money on…but on the topic of Nazis in Argentina, I do recommend The Real Odessa: Smuggling the Nazis to Peron’s Argentina
Okay, I’m trying to keep my posts to a fairly low word count…saving you, dear reader, precious reading time. So, my next odd encounter will be posted tomorrow.
August 26th, 2008 at 8:28 am
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August 27th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Jeff,
Thanks for bringing this book thread into your blog. I’m looking for Benjamin’s Arcade Project.
As for the bariloche Nazi title, that’s the kind of thing I like to browse through! There’s one used 2004 edition available at amazon for $40!!!
I hope to find the time (and maybe a good used copy) to read Roberto Bolano’s ‘Nazi Literature in the Americas’.
August 27th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Hi Donald, You will really enjoy the Walter Benjamin book.
$40 for Bariloche Nazi?! Yikes, just wait until you get here and get a copy in pesos….it probably is entertaining in some odd way.
I hear that Bolaño’s Nazi Literature is a very good book, though I’ve not read it yet.
August 28th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Jeff,
Here’s a small entry on Bolano’s last work to be translated into English, the mammouth 900-page ‘2666’ :
http://nymag.com/guides/fallpreview/2008/books/49504/