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...from bits of literary history, fantasy and skeptical philosophy. He has become, not surprisingly, one of the major influences on contemporary U.S. fiction. But the Latin appetite for the big bite has in recent years produced one unquestionable masterpiece: in One Hundred Years of Solitude, Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez completely and gloriously occupied his mythical territory of Macondo, a tropical Yoknapatawpha...
Brutal Naturalism. If Garcia Marquez is Latin America's Faulkner, Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa is aesthetically, if not stylistically, its Dreiser. His first novel, The City of the Dogs, was a brutal slab of naturalism about life and violent death at a Peruvian military school for problem youth-a place not unlike the institution Vargas Llosa attended in the early 1950s. Officials at the school ensured the author a wide readership and international attention by publicly burning 1,000 copies of his book...
...importer to an exporter of 60,000 bbl. a day. The impact, reports TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich, has already been felt in the Tabascan capital of Villahermosa, where land prices have soared as much as 2,000% and hotel space is at a premium. Tabascan Governor Mario Trujillo Garcia predicts that Villahermosa's population, now 150,000, will double in eight years. Out in the countryside, where rainfall of up to 400 inches a year keeps 40% of the land under water, the rapid change is not appreciated. The oil belongs to Pemex, the state oil monopoly; farmers receive...
...same attitude that women who have been raped later encounter in the law process. The offhand comment the rapist makes to one women hitchhiker--"It's all part of the fun of hitchhiking"-- finds its counterpart in the California juror who last week dismissed entirely Inez Garcia's outrage and fear and disgust at her alleged rapist: "He was just trying to show her a good time, that...
...addition to its recruitment programs, Raza hopes to publish a booklet for Chicanos interested in Harvard, Garcia said yesterday...