Publishers fight over little-known Bolaño novel
One of the world's most aggressive literary agencies, overseen by super-agent Andrew Wylie, scored a double coup by taking over representation of deceased Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño just as an unpublished novel by him was discovered.
Wylie's agency has been offering the manuscript of The Third Reich at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week. Publishers were said to be fighting over the novel from an author whose stock hit new highs in the English-speaking world after the success of The Savage Detectives, said by the New York Times to be one of the best 10 books last year.
The Bolaño estate's previous agent, Carmen Balcells, reportedly had no idea that the new, unpublished novel existed and said that it certainly had not been on his computer when he died in 2003. His Spanish publisher, Jorge Herralde, also had no knowledge of it.
The Third Reich is said to have been written in the early 1990s before Bolaño began to work on a computer...
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Wylie's agency has been offering the manuscript of The Third Reich at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week. Publishers were said to be fighting over the novel from an author whose stock hit new highs in the English-speaking world after the success of The Savage Detectives, said by the New York Times to be one of the best 10 books last year.
The Bolaño estate's previous agent, Carmen Balcells, reportedly had no idea that the new, unpublished novel existed and said that it certainly had not been on his computer when he died in 2003. His Spanish publisher, Jorge Herralde, also had no knowledge of it.
The Third Reich is said to have been written in the early 1990s before Bolaño began to work on a computer...