En El Tercer Reich Roberto Bolano da voz a diversos personajes, disponiendolos en una suerte de tablero en el que se libra la guerra mas antigua de todas: la del nazismo, la de la decadente cultura occidental, la del ser humano contra si mismo.
Se conoce por "juego de guerra" aquel que recrea y simula un enfrentamiento armado a cualquier nivel, sujetandose a reglas para el desarrollo del mismo. El aleman Udo Berger es campeon de esta disciplina en su pais. Los juegos de guerra son al tiempo su profesion y su obsesion; ocupan su vida e invaden su pensamiento a todas horas. Incluso durante el viaje que realiza con su novia Ingeborg a la Costa Brava, donde el habia veraneado en su infancia, se hace instalar una gran mesa en la habitacion del hotel para pensar en las estrategias de su nuevo juego, El Tercer Reich.
Una noche, sin embargo, Udo e Ingeborg conocen a otra pareja de alemanes, Charly y Hanna, que les introduciran a un mundo oculto tras las playas y el sol. Un mundo poblado por personajes de dudosa reputacion, pasados oscuros y futuros aun mas enigmaticos.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war games champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals-the Wolf, the Lamb, and El Quemado-and to the darker side of life in a resort town.
Late one night, Charly disappears without a trace, and Udo's well-ordered life is thrown into upheaval; while Ingeborg and Hanna return to their lives in Germany, he refuses to leave the hotel. Soon he and El Quemado are enmeshed in a round of Third Reich, Udo's favorite World War II strategy game, and Udo discovers that the game's consequences may be all too real.
Written in 1989 and found among Roberto Bolano's papers after his death, The Third Reich is a stunning exploration of memory and violence. Reading this quick, visceral novel, we see a world-class writer coming into his own-and exploring for the first time the themes that would define his masterpieces The Savage Detectives and 2666.
Se conoce por "juego de guerra" aquel que recrea y simula un enfrentamiento armado a cualquier nivel, sujetandose a reglas para el desarrollo del mismo. El aleman Udo Berger es campeon de esta disciplina en su pais. Los juegos de guerra son al tiempo su profesion y su obsesion; ocupan su vida e invaden su pensamiento a todas horas. Incluso durante el viaje que realiza con su novia Ingeborg a la Costa Brava, donde el habia veraneado en su infancia, se hace instalar una gran mesa en la habitacion del hotel para pensar en las estrategias de su nuevo juego, El Tercer Reich.
Una noche, sin embargo, Udo e Ingeborg conocen a otra pareja de alemanes, Charly y Hanna, que les introduciran a un mundo oculto tras las playas y el sol. Un mundo poblado por personajes de dudosa reputacion, pasados oscuros y futuros aun mas enigmaticos.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war games champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals-the Wolf, the Lamb, and El Quemado-and to the darker side of life in a resort town.
Late one night, Charly disappears without a trace, and Udo's well-ordered life is thrown into upheaval; while Ingeborg and Hanna return to their lives in Germany, he refuses to leave the hotel. Soon he and El Quemado are enmeshed in a round of Third Reich, Udo's favorite World War II strategy game, and Udo discovers that the game's consequences may be all too real.
Written in 1989 and found among Roberto Bolano's papers after his death, The Third Reich is a stunning exploration of memory and violence. Reading this quick, visceral novel, we see a world-class writer coming into his own-and exploring for the first time the themes that would define his masterpieces The Savage Detectives and 2666.
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