Word: consulant
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Neruda's early work was rhapsodic and lushly romantic, at once Whitmanesque and surrealistic. During the 1930s, the style and tone of his verse abruptly changed. The catalyst was the Spanish Civil War, which Neruda witnessed as a Chilean consul in Spain...
...HONORARY CONSUL...
Greene's goings-on in The Honorary Consul at first seem highly local and temporary. The scene is South America in the '70s, and the situation is even closer to the daily headlines than was the case with The Comedians or The Quiet American. Some hapless Paraguayan guerrillas, stirred by General Stroessner's repressions, cross the border into northern Argentina. They aim to kidnap a visiting American ambassador and hold him against the release of ten political prisoners. But, as one character remarks, "nothing happens as we intend." Acting as his customary farce majeure, Greene...
...very end The Honorary Consul thins and flattens down to a claptrap scene-barely suitable for framing on celluloid-in which Fortnum, Plarr and the kidnapers, led (yes) by a renegade priest named Leon, are beleaguered by police with searchlights and a helicopter. But much of the novel is as finely controlled and exquisitely melancholy as a Mozart symphony...