
by Roberto Bolaño · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788466337106
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In 'The Third Reich', Roberto Bolaño immerses us in the disturbing story of Udo Berger, a war games champion who travels with his girlfriend Ingeborg to the German coast to enjoy a vacation. However, the atmosphere becomes oppressive when Udo becomes obsessed with a mysterious strategy game called 'The Third Reich'. As he progresses in the game, reality and fiction intertwine, revealing dark secrets and latent tensions between the characters. The novel explores themes such as obsession, incommunication, and the fragility of the human condition in a context marked by the shadow of the Nazi past.

Roberto Bolaño Ávalos was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. In 1999, Bolaño won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel The Savage Detectives, and in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666, which was described by board member Marcela Valdes as a "work so rich and dazzling that it will surely draw readers and scholars for ages".