{"id":26237,"date":"2012-01-31T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=26237"},"modified":"2012-01-31T11:55:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T16:55:56","slug":"last-chance-bolano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/31\/last-chance-bolano\/","title":{"rendered":"Last-Chance Bola\u00f1o"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/196.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/196-e1328023745340.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"196\" width=\"270\" height=\"413\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cCompassionate, disturbing, and deeply felt &#8230; tragic and beautiful.\u201d \u2014NPR<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA scathing novel with a lot of exuberance to it, not unlike the man who wrote it.\u201d \u2014<em>The Economist<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThoroughly, weirdly absorbing.\u201d \u2014<em>The New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s what the critics are saying about Roberto Bola\u00f1o\u2019s lost novel, <em>The Third Reich<\/em>, which we serialized with original illustrations by Leanne Shapton. Over the course of four issues, we followed the adventures of Udo Berger, a young German who falls into louche company in an insalubrious resort on the Costa Brava\u2014but of course, as a reader of <em>The Paris Review<\/em>, you know all about it.<\/p>\n<p>But maybe you missed an installment. Maybe you left it on the beach. Maybe your sinister uncle stole a copy from your apartment.<\/p>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<p>Maybe you never subscribed at all.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, kids, you\u2019re in luck.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theparisreview.org\/subscribe\">Subscribe now<\/a>* to <em>The Paris Review<\/em>, and receive all four installments\u2014the entire <em>Third Reich<\/em>\u2014plus three more issues to come. All for only $50.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right: you\u2019ll receive seven issues, 196 through 202, and catch up on our most popular installments to date.<\/p>\n<p>Plus: interviews with Janet Malcolm, William Gibson, Nicholson Baker, and Jeffrey Eugenides; new work by Geoff Dyer, Jonathan Lethem, Frederick Seidel, and John Jeremiah Sullivan; and much more.<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t delay! 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