Word: isolationism
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The story itself matters some of the artistic issues Donoso discusses. The Ventures have achieved isolation in the country only through an effort of will enforced through false stories of cannibalism outside. They maintain contact with the outside through trade with foreigners. In fact, their fortune comes from this trade...
Critics, in a sniveling attempt to place Donoso in a genre, have often compared him to Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquees. Their similarities--in subject matter and setting, for example--stem only from the aspects of Spanish colonial heritage common to Chile and Colombia The mixing of several cultures gives...
The Spanish title of Donoso's novel, Casa de Campo,is also the name of a park just outside of Madrid Donoso clearly does not intend the park's name as the title's only significance like other things in the book, however, the title points out ward and suggests...
For the folks at home, it was an interesting week for the old problem to arise, as they sat back among the confusions, watching Lebanon with one eye and with the other a U.S. astronaut floating gloriously in the blackest space, at once free and alone. Is that what the...
His argument is based on his contention that Israel's isolation is her own fault. He seems to feel that Israel, having been attacked by the combined weight of the entire Arab world three times during her short existence, and having been plagued by the hateful PLO, should now cease...