Word: diana
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...together Joan of Arc, Billie Holliday, and the goddess Artemis, swirl in a healthy heaping of the-girl-next-door, maybe throw in a dash of a female version of Malcolm X for extra kick and shake thoroughly. The result will be the American movie actress Diana Soren, as portrayed in Carlos Fuentes' latest novel...
...story begins New Years' Eve, 1970, when Fuentes, an acclaimed Mexican novelist, meets Diana Soren. From there, the reader is carried through FBI intrigue, encounters with the Black Panthers, sexual jealousy with Mexican revolutionaries. This novel leaves no stone untouched. It is an extraordinary chronicle of a history intertwined with art, and forever surrounded by love, lust, and humiliation...
...center of all this mayhem is Diana. With her moody personality and mysterious connections, she undermines Fuentes' confidence in the only two things he ever found salvation in: his ability to write and to love. However, her inward vulnerability, romanticism, and rebellious nature eventually catch up to her; she becomes one of J. Edgar Hoover's "reliable enemies". The goddess is crushed by the onslaught of the FBI and the American media and Fuentes is left to reconstruct the ideals of his literary career and his perceptions of love...
...opened a great source of literary imagination and innovation. This novel, a somewhat shady mix between autobiographical narrative and fiction, abounds with passages rich in satirical portrayals and thought-provoking philosophies. The language in Fuentes' novel is something to be savored--whether he is discussing society, politics, or Diana herself, he leaves the reader enchanted by his supreme ability to convey his ideas with humor, grace and emotion. It is the little details that add so much flavor: "She laughed so hard she almost left me looking like Van Gogh...
...role of different religions in the lives of many students. Not to speak of the Alumni Association's panel on religion held last week, the undergraduate column on religion at Harvard in the latest issue of Harvard Magazine or the upcoming address at Junior Parents' Weekend by Professor Diana Eck on changes in American religion. The Interfaith Forum is both a response to and a catalyst for such activities...