Word: fanger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wants to portray the relation of the Old World and the New," Donald L. Fanger, a professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, noted adding that Fuentes is extremely well-versed in European literature, especially French fiction...
...Fanger added that Fuentes is intimately familiar with North American culture and literature Fanger, who has corresponded with Fuentes since the two met at a Harvard conference two years ago, called Fuentes "one of a relative few Latin American intellectuals who feel really and deeply at home in America. He knows our habits of thought...
...interested in the relationship between the image on the screen and reality," Fanger explains Bunuel's surrealism has had a substantial influence on Fuentes's prose style, Soto-Duggan added...
...Fanger added that Fuentes' 1978 novel. The Hydra Head, "was a tribute to the film noire. It can't be understood unless you keep in mind that Fuentes was looking at that genre of film...
While there is no official Harvard policy regarding academic refugees, most dissidents currently at Harvard credit individual departments or professors with smoothing their path to Cambridge. In the case of Polish poet Stanislaw Baranczak--now an associate professor of Slavic Languages--Professor Donald Fanger, then chairman of the Slavic department, contacted Baranczak directly in Poland in 1978 to recruit him as a replacement for a retiring professor. Baranczak immediately encountered difficulty in obtaining his exit visa, but he kept in contact with the department for three years and through six unsuccessful visa applications...