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Originally Posted by Daniel del Real
Indeed, the last part of Nazi Literature in the Americas is the base for the novel Distant Star. I read first Distant Star, so when I read that last part it was a little disappointing to know what it was going to happen, however it was a nice exercise to see where the idea came and how he fully developed it to a novel.
Murakami does that a lot. Two of his novels, Sputnik Sweetheart and Tokyo Blues, are based on two short stories (don't remember their names) that were published in Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.
Coincidently Bolaño and Murakami are both, two of my favorite contemporanean writers.
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Also note that in the foreword he claims that the book was written with the aid of "Arturo B, who tried to get himself killed in Africa" and "the ghost of Pierre Menard", obviously referencing The Savage Detectives and Borges.
As for the book itself, it's no 2666 but still very good.