![]() ![]() One region, however, continues to ignore him: "In the British Isles, it must be said, Archimboldi remained a decidedly marginal writer." His renown even spreads to the United States, a country that is famously resistant to translated fiction, but which, Bolaño says, "likes vanished writers (vanished writers or millionaire writers) or the legend of vanished writers". ![]() A rumour that the enigmatic Prussian might be in line for the Nobel prize puts his books on the bestseller lists in France and Italy. Not much is known about Archimboldi, whose improbable name is thought to be a pseudonym, but during the 1990s (in Bolaño's telling) critical enthusiasm for his dark, difficult novels - one of which is "about seaweed" - starts to find him a readership outside his native country. O ne of the many plot lines in Roberto Bolaño's posthumously published novel 2666 concerns a secretive German writer named Benno von Archimboldi. ![]()
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