Word: compostela
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Germans seem so hungry and pushy, and why do the Japanese lose their politeness when they leave their country? Why do the Soviets practice so much birth control and the South Americans so little? Why did so few people survive the 11th century pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela in Spain...
...furnish the stage on which his strange cast converge, Stone takes his cue from Joseph Conrad, who set Nostromo in an imaginary South American republic called Costa-guana. Stone squeezes Tecan and its more progressive neighbor Compostela into a fictional space between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and then provides topography and politics. The land here is racked periodically by earthquakes; when Holliwell arrives in Tecan, he senses the tremors of revolution as well. The local dictator, propped up by U.S. support and sadistic National Guardsmen wearing reflecting sunglasses, may have finally pushed his brutalized subjects too far. He is driving...