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This novel brings up such questions because Gore Vidal is a reasonably serious writer: his credentials, if haphazard, are all in order. Although he has taken time out to run for Congress as a Democrat in 1960 and to haunt television panels as a sort of sexy Schlesinger or political Capote, he has always been primarily a working novelist (Julian), playwright (Visit to a Small Planet), and critic (Rocking the Boat...
Philosopher Karl Jaspers, 85, is a ghost at the German banquet who knows just how to haunt complacent fellow countrymen. Ever since the end of World War II, he has been relentlessly reminding his people that guilt belongs not only to Hitler but to the Germans who supported and obeyed him. Six years ago, he brought down Wagnerian thunder on his head by advising Germans to give up their favorite dream, reunification. Now in this slim, blunt: volume-a bestseller in Germany-he has put all the unpleasant reminders together. The result is a remarkable attempt at national selfcriticism. Only...
Abraham's Choice. The novel is a stark tale that shows how the ghosts of the Hitler era still haunt the Promised Land. In a Polish concentration camp, Nazi guards tell Haim Kalinsky that since his two sons are so "nice," they will kill only one of them-thus forcing on him a sadistic perversion of Abraham's choice. Kalinsky selects his favorite, eleven-year-old Shmuel, to be spared, while six-year-old Daniel is led away to be slaughtered...
...Personal Anthology), as one of Latin America's most important literary voices. His first major novel, The President (1946), was a razor-edged indictment of Cabrera-style caudillismo. Three years later, he completed Men of Corn, an intense, poetic treatment of the poverty, hopelessness and dark mysticism that haunt the life of the Guatemalan Indian. Over the next ten years, he produced a trilogy of political novels that attacked widespread "Yankee economic imperialism" in Guatemala, focusing-if sometimes too polemically -on the growth and power of the United Fruit Co. Last week Asturias was busy on his eighth...
...blown-up magazine pictures of anonymous children. It was, she recalls, "A house of gloom, a somber monument. Not for anything in the world would I go there now!" And she adds, with a characteristic touch of superstition, that Stalin's soul, "so restless everywhere else," may still haunt that gloomy refuge. Svetlana last saw him two months before his death in March 1953. Trusting no doctors, he took quack remedies; he was to die of a massive stroke. As she records her fa ther's death, the full meaning of her ambivalence toward him rises from...