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DIED. CAMILO JOSE CELA, 85, Spanish writer, bon vivant and 1989 Nobel laureate in literature; in Madrid. The flamboyant author pioneered "tremendismo," a raw writing style that Spain would claim as its own, though Cela's first work, The Family of Pascal Duarte (1942), was considered so violent it was banned in his country and first published in Argentina. The novel eventually became one of the best-read works of Spanish fiction since Cervantes' Don Quixote...
...City. With her deep, sensuous voice, Montes was dubbed "la Voz Pasional" (the Voice of Passion). Her emotional renditions of the romantic Latin style of music called bolero sent her popularity skyrocketing: three compilation CDs of her work have been released in the past five years. DIED. CAMILO JOSE CELA, 85, prolific, provocative author whose challenging prose won him the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature; in Madrid. One of Spain's greatest intellects of the 20th century, Cela gained entrance into the Royal Spanish Academy at 42 and was named marquess of Iria Flavia (his home village) by King Juan...
Netanyahu was raised to achieve. His mother Cela studied law, and his father Benzion is a historian whose lifework, a study of the Jews during the Spanish Inquisition, was published to acclaim last year. Called Bibi from childhood, after a cousin, Netanyahu inherited his right-wing politics from his father, a disciple of Ze'ev Jabotinsky, the founder of Revisionist Zionism. To members of that movement even David Ben-Gurion was not sufficiently nationalist. Netanyahu can be touchy about his family. Last week his mother lent a Time photographer six pictures of him as a youngster, then called urgently...
...time and memory in the face of war and death. As one character remarks, "Poe was right: our thoughts are palsied and sere, our memories treacherous, sere and rusted like old knives...it must be in the nature of things." Memory is a bridge but also a trap for Cela's villagers, especially tricky when dealing with murder and revenge as well as the civil war. For in consolidating fact and fiction, truth and myth, memory can create an epic out of everyday incidents. But Cela also questions the relevance and meaning of memory in a world where truth...
...Cela seeks here both to write about the Spanish Civil War and to stress its unwrite-ability. Mazurka for Two Dead Men is an intricate, difficult study of a war which can never be contained or limited to novels or official reports of reputed fact, but lives on as long as people are alive who remember fragments, names and voices, from...