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...Anatolian, Elia Kazan Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Mario Vargas Llosa...
FICTION: The Anatolian, Elia Kazan Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Mario Vargas Llosa ∙Family Trade, James Carroll ∙Famous Last Words, Timothy Findley ∙The Girl of the Sea of Cortez, Peter Benchley The Woods, David Plante
FICTION: The Anatolian, Elia Kazan Family Trade, James Carroll Famous Last Words, Timothy Find ley ∙The Girl of the Sea of Cortez, Peter Benchley The Woods, David Plante ∙Worldly Goods, Michael Korda
When his attention wavers from the buck, ape-neck Stavros is racked by culture shock. Women provide most of the tremors. He half-believes with his sister Fofo that "most American women were, or had recently been, prostitutes." Almost in wonder at his own creation, Kazan watches his protagonist devote "hours to a consideration of the nature of sexual relations in Western society," then come "to the conclusion he'd started with, that the only way to keep a woman in line was to do what the Anatolians do: run off a string of pregnancies, then dress the woman...
...Kazan, whose Greek immigrant father was a rug importer, may have shared some of his character's social trepidations as a student at Williams and Yale. His college nickname was Gadge, short for Gadget ("I was small, compact and eccentric"), but there is nothing mechanical in his development of The Anatolian. With humor and affection, as well as a bruised sense of the dark side of immigrant life, he has woven a saga as richly textured as a fine Kirman carpet. Or one of the great old Kazan films, for which The Anatolian would have made fine grist...