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DONA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS by Jorge Amado. 553 pages. Knopf...
Food and sex. Sex and food. Chicken in coconut milk-vatapá-then a white night under the stars. These constitute life in the Brazilian state of Bahia, according to its most celebrated writer, Jorge Amado. They are also the fixed points in the remarkable history of his latest heroine, Dona Flor...
Created under the will of Abiel Smith, who graduated from Harvard in the class of 1764, the Smith Professorship has been held by George Ticknor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, J. D. M. Ford, Jean-Joseph Seznec, Amado Alonso, Herbert Dieckmann and others. Lida's appointment will be effective July...
Hover in Twilight. By then, Asturias was one of the favorite writers of Guatemalan intellectuals; he had established himself, along with Brazil's Jorge Amado (Gabriela) and Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges (A Personal Anthology), as one of Latin America's most important literary voices. His first major novel, The President (1946), was a razor-edged indictment of Cabrera-style caudillismo. Three years later, he completed Men of Corn, an intense, poetic treatment of the poverty, hopelessness and dark mysticism that haunt the life of the Guatemalan Indian. Over the next ten years, he produced a trilogy...
...Laxness touches with song the most unlikely events, from Jon of Skagi's self-appointment as custodian of the town lavatory to a great debate that raged in Iceland about whether the establishment of barbershops should be permitted. As a storyteller, Laxness shares with Brazil's Jorge Amado (TIME, May 28, 1965) an infectious zest for the eccentricities of ordinary people and a genial affection for those resolute fish in humankind who dare to swim against the tide...