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...Madrid's Pastoral Institute and author of the 1976 book El Otro Jésus (The Other Jesus), told TIME that Jesus is "a man elected and sent by God, and has been constituted by God as the Son of God." At the Jesuit theological school in Barcelona, José Ignacio Gonzáles Faus insists that during his earthly life, Jesus was not aware of being God, and displayed such human traits as doubt and ignorance. Similar points are made by a German-trained Basque, Jon Sobrino, who has written the most thorough study of Christ...
...such novels as This Sunday and The Obscene Bird of Night (1973). He remains confidently cosmopolitan in his themes and techniques. Chilean by birth, the author was educated at Princeton, spent time as a writer in residence at the University of Iowa and currently lives on the outskirts of Barcelona, the setting for three eerie and witty novellas linked in Sacred Families...
Sylvia returns fully assembled in Gaspard de la Nuit as the mother of a lonely teen-age boy who wanders the streets of Barcelona whistling a complex piece by Ravel. Music is to young Mauricio what fashion is to Sylvia and what the perfect apartment is to Roberto and Marta: a way of erasing the outside world. It is also a way of severing Mauricio from his dull, affluent life. The tale ends with a prince-and-the-pauper twist, when he changes places with an urchin who is his double...
Though extremists were attempting to disrupt the election-in Barcelona two civil guards were killed and a Madrid power station was bombed-campaign violence was not widespread. On the whole, the 22 million Spaniards who are eligible to vote on June 15 seemed surprisingly calm. Many appeared more bewildered than enthusiastic about the rituals of democracy -early polls showed 25% of the voters undecided. That was not all bad. Given the passions of the past and the dangers of polarization, one foreign diplomat observed, "Spain probably does not need an emotional campaign...
...atmospherically Spanish as one could wish and, in the end, preferable. Here is a recording by the French American Michel Block that not only challenges De Larrocha's supremacy, but topples it. Block's playing has an earthy swagger and poetic sweep that the lady from Barcelona cannot match...