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Pity the plight of the super bestseller. Louis de Bernières was 39 when his fourth novel, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, became a surprise global phenomenon, selling around 3.5 million copies in 24 languages. Now, at 49, he's just getting around to publishing the follow-up, Birds Without Wings (Secker & Warburg). What has he done in the intervening decade? A few short stories, a biblical preface, and a lame children's novella called Red Dog. With his fans clamoring for more of the same, and detractors eager to prove him a one-hit wonder, it's little surprise...
...Bernières has lost sight of what made his last book a smash: a yearning, forbidden relationship between two heroes. Instead, he gives us a dizzying flock of principal characters
...governments had not given their artists a chance to develop. So he tore off a manifesto exhorting Latin America's painters to back the attack. Last January the aroused artists formed a Continental Committee of Art for Victory, planned a series of propaganda tours. Argentina's Antonio Berni would tour the east coast of South America. Chile's Antonio Quintana would tour Chile, Bolivia and Paraguay. Siqueiros undertook a modest swing through Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Cuba, Mexico...
...wild hunt for "Communists," the Government of President Pedro Ramirez has purged the press, literature, labor, social clubs, officialdom. Last week it reached out to clean up art. Police sought out Antonio Berni, recipient of this year's National Prize for Painting, the nation's highest honor to its artists, forbade him to accept the prize because he was a "Communist...
...Berni was not the only one to suffer...