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...worth remembering (and is documented at some length in the Phillips catalog) that the Migration series could not have been done without several grants from the Rosenwald Fund, instigated by Locke, and might never have acquired a public life without the determined backing of the art dealer Edith Halpert...
...first it seems rather surprising that a translator as extraordinarily gifted as Edith Grossman should have rendered the title of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's new book, Doce cuentos peregrinos, as Strange Pilgrims. The Spanish literally means something like "Twelve Peregrine Tales." Yet a Spanish/English dictionary will tell you that "peregrino," besides "pilgrim" or "peregrine," also means "strange," "exceptional," and "perfect." It's easy to sympathize with Grossman, for there is no way to convey these connotations in one word. However, all those words are perfectly applicable to Garcia Marquez's first book since The General in His Labyrinth...
...relationship not unlike that of the United States and England, the former interaction is vastly more complicated and tortuous. The U.S. need no longer have an inferiority complex with respect to Europe, such as was depicted in Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad or in just about all of Edith Wharton's novels. The U.S. can now stand as an equal with the European nations; indeed, it has come to overshadow them. Latin America has had no such luck. In all sorts of pervasive ways, Latin America still lives with the burden of Europe, and the stories in Strange Pilgrims...
...Edith Wharton is enjoying a hot season, 56 years after her death, that would be the envy of many a living novelist. Buoyed by Martin Scorsese's film, The Age of Innocence is the No. 1 paperback best seller. Sales of other Wharton titles have doubled, and three have been snapped up for possible films. As if | Wharton didn't write enough, her last, unfinished novel, The Buccaneers, has been completed (and, alas, flattened and sentimentalized) by scholar Marion Mainwaring (Viking; $22). It too has been optioned by Hollywood...
...touched everyone, from the misbegotten of the meanest quartier to the most refined boulevardiers. Jean Cocteau, who died within hours of Piaf, called her a genius: "There has never been another like her . . . and there never will be." He compared her to a nightingale, but the impresario who discovered Edith Giovanna Gassion at 19, singing on the corner of a Paris avenue, had bestowed a more fitting name: Piaf, which in the city's argot of the 1930s meant sparrow...