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...FAUSTINO GONZALEZ-ALLER Translated by MARGARET SAVERS PEDEN 243 pages. Viking...
Faustino Gonzalez-Aller is a Spaniard, a journalist and screenwriter who has returned to his native 4and after years of living and working in Central America and New York City. Like so many of today's serious novels, his Niña Huanca seems to have been shaped by the experiences of migration and cultural isolation. Modern Hispanic novelists have had the good fortune to share many of the same themes with their 19th century Russian counterparts-problems of underdevelopment, social and political injustice, gaping class divisions and a religious sense of the land and peasantry...
...lately received many tourists. Joan Didion exercised her talents there in A Book of Common Prayer. García 3's The Autumn of the Patriarch also took place in such a Central American dreamscape. Niña Huanca strikes similar social and political chords, but Gonzalez-Aller also seeks the high notes of myth and the mysteries of human motives...
Author Gonzalez-Aller uses flash backs, lyricism, internal monologues and bitter wit to project his vision of cor ruption, revolution and revenge. Lusts, loyalties and betrayals are as entwined as jungle vines. Ideals and dreams are trampled, only to emerge again. History has no beginning, middle and end, only a cycle of birth and death. To Gonzalez-Aller, "Eternity is procreation...
...audience. His voice is not particularly powerful, and he doesn't exhibit any exceptional control. Elizabeth McLaughlin should not have been singing on the night that I heard her, for she has just recently recovered from bronchitis. The role of Constanze is a demanding one, and she butchers "Marten aller Arten." She is perhaps very courageous, but she should have let her understudy sing. Ruth Elena Harcovitz was splendid as the spitfire lady-in-waiting to Constanze. With no orchestra pit in the Peabody School auditorium singers have to project through their accompaniment. Harcovitz's clean soprano and bright enunciation...