Being a fictional encyclopedia of Fascist/anti-Enlightenment writers, mainly from South America, from the early 20th to the mid-21st century. It is entertaining, and I suspect Bolano's main target was not Fascism but the foolishness of literary ambition. My main caveat with this (and with Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude) is that this writing seems a bit too easy, a series of "surreal" one-liners strung together. "His last work, a self-published pornographic novella in 98 mimeographed pages, was a horrific traducing of Enrique Zubano."