Nazi Literature in the Americas (New Directions Paperbook) (15 page)

EPILOGUE FOR MONSTERS

1. S
ECONDARY
F
IGURES

Marcos Ricardo Alarcón Chamiso. Arequipa, 1910–Arequipa, 1977. Poet,
musician, painter, sculptor and amateur mathematician.

Susy D’Amato. Buenos Aires, 1935–Paris, 2001. Argentinean poet and friend
of Luz Mendiluce. She ended her days selling Latin American handcrafts in the French
capital.

Duchess of Bahamontes. Cordoba, 1893–Madrid, 1957. Duchess and Cordoban.
Period. Her (platonic) lovers numbered in the hundreds. Urinary problems and
anorgasmia. A fine gardener in her old age.

Pedro Barbero. Móstoles, 1934–Madrid, 1998. Secretary, lover and
confidant of Luz Mendiluce. The Miguel Hernández of the populist right. Author of
proletarian sonnets.

Gabino Barreda. Hermosillo, 1908–Los Angeles, 1989. Renowned architect.
He began as a Stalinist and ended as a Salinist, supporting Carlos Salinas de
Gortari.

Tatiana von Beck Iraola. Santiago, 1950–Santiago, 2011. Feminist, gallery
owner, journalist, conceptual sculptor, one of the pillars of Chilean cultural
life.

Luis Enrique Belmar. Buenos Aires, 1865–Buenos Aires, 1940. Literary
critic. He declared that Macedonio Fernández couldn’t write to save his life. Savage
in his treatment of Edelmira Thompson.

Hugo Bossi. Buenos Aires, 1920–Buenos Aires, 1991. Architect. Creator of
the Museum-Hotel projects, which were, he confessed, inspired by his years as a
boarder at a Jesuit school in the Province of Buenos Aires. The Museum-Hotel, as
well as being a museum open to the public and a residence for artists in need, was
to have various subterranean sports grounds, a velodrome, a cinema, two theaters, a
chapel, a supermarket, and a small, discreet police station.

Jack Brooke. New Jersey, 1950–Los Angeles, 1990. Art dealer associated
with the drug trade and money-laundering. Declaimer and quick-change artist in his
spare time.

Mauricio Cáceres. Tres Arroyos, 1925–Buenos Aires, 1996. Second husband
of Luz Mendiluce. Popularly known as The Martín Fierro of the Apocalypse. Onetime
editor of
American Letters
.

Florencio Capó. Concepción, 1920–Santiago, 1995. Friend and confidant of
Pedro González Carrera. Although very fond of González, he could never understand
his friend’s posthumous fame.

Dan Carmine. Los Angeles, 1958–Los Angeles, 1986. Extremely well-endowed
porn actor. His penis was eleven and a half inches long. He had the bluest eyes in
the business, and worked in several of Adolfo Pantoliano’s films.

Aldo Carozzone. Buenos Aires, 1893–Buenos Aires, 1982. Epicurean
philosopher and private secretary to Edelmira Thompson.

Edelmiro Carozzone. Buenos Aires, 1940–Madrid, 2027.The only child of
Aldo Carozzone. He was originally to be named Adolfo (after Adolph Hilter), but at
the last minute, his father chose instead the name of his employer and benefactor,
as a mark of his devoted friendship. As a boy he was perpetually amazed and fitfully
happy. He later worked as a secretary to the Mendiluce family.

John Castellano. Mobile 1950–Selma, 2021. North American writer. Dubbed
The Duce of Alabama
by Argentino Schiaffino.

Enzo Raúl Castiglioni. Buenos Aires, 1940–Buenos Aires, 2002. Leader of
the Boca Juniors soccer gang. When he was imprisoned, his place was taken by Italo
Schiaffino. Closely resembled a rat, according to some of his contemporaries. A
hybrid of rat and peacock, according to others. A pathetic loser, in the opinion of
his family.

Juan Cherniakovski. Valdivia, 1943–El Salvador, 1984. Panamerican poet
and guerrila fighter. Second cousin of the Soviet general Ivan Cherniakovski.

Arthur Crane. New Orleans, 1947–Los Angeles, 1989. Poet. Author of a
number of important books, including
Homosexual Heaven
and
Disciplining
Children
. He indulged his suicidal tendencies by frequenting the underworld
and hanging out with lowlifes. Others smoke three packs of cigarettes a day.

Eugenio Entrescu. Bacau, Rumania, 1905–Kishinev, Ukraine, 1944. Rumanian
General. During the Second World War he distinguished himself in the capture of
Odessa, the Siege of Sebastopol and the Battle of Stalingrad. Erect, his member was
exactly twelve inches long, half an inch longer than that of Dan Carmine. He
commanded the 20th Division, the 14th Division and the 3rd Infantry Corps. His
soldiers crucified him in a village near Kishinev.

Atilio Franchetti. Buenos Aires, 1919–Buenos Aires, 1990. Painter who
took part in the
Poe’s Room
project.

Persio de la Fuente. Buenos Aires, 1919–Buenos Aires, 1990. Argentinean
colonel and eminent semiologist.

Honesto García. Buenos Aires, 1950–Buenos Aires, 2013. Onetime hit man
and leader of the Boca soccer gang. Died a beggar, bawling tangos, crying and
shitting in his pants in an out-of-the-way street in Villa Devoto.

Martín García. Los Angeles, Chile, 1942–Perpignan, 1989. Chilean poet and
translator. His writing workshop held in the Concepción medical faculty was one of
the world’s most disgusting phenomena: two steps away, across the corridor, was the
operating theater where the anatomy students were dissecting corpses.

María Teresa Greco. New Jersey, 1936–Orlando, 2004. Argentino
Schiaffino’s second wife. According to eye-witnesses she was tall, thin and bony, a
sort of ghost or incarnation of the will.

Wenceslao Hassel. Pando, Uruguay, 1900–Montevideo, 1958. Playwright.
Author of
America’s Domestic Wars, How to Be a Man, Ferocity, Argentinean Women
in Paris
and other plays, applauded in their day by theater audiences in
Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Santiago de Chile.

Otto Haushofer. Berlin, 1871–Berlin, 1945. Nazi philosopher. Godfather of
Luz Mendiluce and father of various harebrained theories: hollow earth, solid
universe, original civilizations, the interplanetary Aryan tribe. He committed
suicide after being raped by three drunk Uzbek soldiers.

Antonio Lacouture. Buenos Aires, 1943–Buenos Aires, 1999. Argentinean
military officer. He defeated subversives but lost the Falklands. An expert in the
“submarine” technique and the application of electrodes. He invented a game using
mice. The sound of his voice made prisoners tremble. He received various
decorations.

Julio César Lacouture. Buenos Aires, 1927–Buenos Aires, 1984. Luz
Mendiluce’s first husband. Author of an “Ode to San Martín” and an “Ode to
O’Higgins,” which both won municipal prizes.

Juan José Lasa Mardones. Cuban poet whose life is a mystery, with
scattered poems to his name. Possibly invented by Ernesto Pérez Masón.

Philippe Lemercier. Nevers, 1925–Buenos Aires, 1984. French landscape
painter and editor of Ignacio Zubieta’s posthumous works.

Juan Carlos Lentini. Buenos Aires, 1945–Buenos Aires, 2008. Onetime
soccer gang leader. He finished his days as a federal government employee.

Carola Leyva. Mar del Plata, 1945–Mar del Plata, 2018. Argentinean poet
and follower of Edelmira Thompson and
Luz Mendiluce.

Susana Lezcano Lafinur. Buenos Aires, 1867–Buenos Aires, 1949. Hostess.
Her salon was one of the institutions of cultural life in Buenos Aires.

Marcus Long. Pittsburgh, 1928–Phoenix, 1989. Poet whose work successively
resembled that of Charles Olson, Robert Lowell, W. S. Merwin, Kenneth Rexroth and
Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Literature professor. Father of Rory Long.

Cecilio Macaduck. Concepción, 1956–Santiago, 2021. Chilean writer whose
curious work, characterized by abundant detail and ominous atmospheres, has won him
an enthusiastic following among critics and general readers. Until the age of
thirty-three he worked as a sales assistant in a
shoe store.

Berta Macchio Morazán. Buenos Aires, 1960–Mar del Plata, 2029. Amateur
illustrator. Niece and lover of Dr. Morazán. Also the lover of Argentino Schiaffino.
Highly strung. Her relationships with the aforementioned individuals resulted in
committal to an insane asylum and several suicide attempts. Doctor Morazán liked to
tie her to the bed or to a chair. Argentino Schiaffino preferred the more
traditional slaps, or stubbing out cigarettes on her arms and legs. She was also the
lover of Scotti Cabello and occasionally eight or nine long-time members of the Boca
soccer gang. Morazán always said that he loved her like a daughter.

Alfredo de María. Mexico City, 1962–Villaviciosa, 2022. Science fiction
writer. Gustavo Borda’s neighbor in Los Angeles for two interminable years.
Disappeared in Villaviciosa, a village of killers in the state of Sonora.

Pedro de Medina. Guadalajara, 1920–Mexico City, 1989. Mexican novelist
whose themes were the revolution and the rural poor.

Sebastián Mendiluce. Buenos Aires, 1874–Buenos Aires, 1940. Argentinean
millionaire. Husband of Edelmira Thompson.

Carlos Enrique Morazán. Buenos Aires, 1940–Buenos Aires, 2004. Leader of
the Boca soccer gang after the death of Italo Schiaffino and devoted admirer of
Italo’s younger brother Argentino. Doctor of parapsychology.

Elizabeth Moreno. Miami, 1974–Miami, 2040. Waitress in a Cuban café.
Third and last wife of Argentino Schiaffino.

Adolfo Pantoliano. Vallejo, California, 1945–Los Angeles, 1986. Director
and producer of pornographic movies. Works:
Hot Bunnies, Stick It In My Ass, The
Ex-Cons and the Horny Fifteen-Year-Old, Three By Three
, and
Alien
Versus Corina
, among others.

Agustín Pérez Heredia. Buenos Aires, 1935–Buenos Aires, 2005. Argentinean
Fascist associated with the world of sport.

Jorge Esteban Petrovich. Buenos Aires, 1960–Buenos Aires, 2027. Author of
three war novels set in the Falklands. Radio and television presenter in later
life.

Jules Albert Ramis. Rouen, 1910–Paris, 1995. Prize-winning French poet.
Held an official post in Petain’s government. Revisionist. Sporadic and gifted
translator from English and Spanish. Member of Parliament. Philosopher in his spare
time. Patron of the arts. Founder of the Mandarins’ Club.

Julián Rico Anaya. Junín, 1942–Buenos Aires, 1998. Argentinean author.
Nationalist and ultra-Catholic.

Baldwin Rocha. Los Angeles, 1999–Laguna Beach, 2017. Killed Rory Long
with an assault rifle. Died three minutes later under a hail of gunfire from Long’s
bodyguards.

Abel Romero. Puerto Montt, 1940–Santiago, 2013. Chilean ex-policeman who
spent many years in exile. On his return he established a successful firm of funeral
directors.

Étienne de Saint Étienne. Lyon, 1920–Paris, 1999. French philosopher and
revisionist historian. Founder of
The Review of Contemporary History
.

Claudia Saldaña. Rosario, 1955–Rosario, 1976. Argentinean poet.
Unpublished. Killed by the military regime.

Ximena San Diego. Buenos Aires, 1870–Paris, 1938. Fossilized gaucho
version of Nina de Villard.

Lou Santino. San Bernadino, 1940–San Bernadino, 2006. John Lee Brook’s
parole officer. According to some, Brook among them, a saint. According to others, a
cynical son of a bitch.

Germán Scotti Cabello. Buenos Aires, 1956–Buenos Aires, 2017. Dr.
Morazán’s right-hand man and unconditional admirer of Argentino Schiaffino.

André Thibault. Niort, 1880–Périgueux, 1945. Philosopher and follower of
Maurras. Executed by a group of resistance fighters in the Périgord.

Alcides Urrutia. Cuban painter of whom nothing more is known. Likely
guest in Castro’s jails. Another of Ernesto Pérez Masón’s inventions?

Tito Vásquez. Rosario, 1895–Río de Janeiro, 1957. Argentinean musician.
Composer of symphonies, various chamber works, three hymns, a funeral march, a
sonatina, and eight tangos that permitted him to live out his days in dignity.

Arturo Velasco. Buenos Aires, 1921–Paris, 1983. Argentinean painter. He
began as a Symbolist and ended up imitating Le Parc.

Magdalena Venegas. Nacimiento, 1955–Concepción, 1973. Chilean poet.
Twin sister of María Venegas. Killed by the military regime.

María Venegas. Nacimiento, 1955–Concepción, 1973. Chilean poet. Killed by
the military regime.

Susy Webster. Berkeley, 1960–Los Angeles, 1986. Porn star. Worked in
several of of Adolfo Pantoliano’s films.

Curzio Zabaleta. Santiago, 1951–Viña del Mar, 2011. Retired Chilean Air
Force captain. Lay monk. Author of bucolic and ecological works.

Augusto Zamora. San Luis Potosí, 1919–Mexico City, 1969. Known as a
social-realist author, although he wrote surrealist poems in secret. He was
homosexual, although he kept up a macho pretence almost all his life. For more than
twenty years he fooled his colleagues into believing that he could speak Russian. He
saw the light in 1968, in a cell in the Lecumberri prison. He died in the street of
a heart attack a month after being released.

2. P
UBLISHING HOUSES, MAGAZINES, PLACES . . .

American Letters
. Bimonthly magazine founded by Edelmira
Thompson, 1948-1979. It was co-edited by Juan and Luz Mendiluce, which gave rise to
inter-sibling quarrels.

Black and White. Extreme right-wing Argentinean publishing house.

Black Pistol. Publishing house based in Rio de Janeiro, specializing in
detective fiction, which opened the door to a large and disparate group of Brazilian
writers.

The Charismatic Church of Californian Christians. Religious congregation
founded by Rory Long in 1984.

The Chestnut. Argentinean publishing house specializing in songbooks and
popular authors.

Church of the True Martyrs of America. Religious congregation in which
Rory Long was a preacher.

City in Flames. Poetry publishing house based in Macon.

Command
. War games magazine to which Harry Sibelius
contributed.

Dawn in California
. One of the Aryan Brotherhood’s
magazines.

The Fabulous Adventures of the White Nation
. One of the Aryan
brotherhood’s magazines.