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...throated, owes its strength to aesthetic intelligence, not ethnic scenery. Meanwhile, Latino playwrights are supplying off-Broadway and the regional theaters with new voices. And while the great Hispanic-American Novel is still waiting to be written, the splendid figures of Latin American literature -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes -- are being translated straight into the American literary fabric, not to mention the best-seller lists...
...been steadily busy ever since. During the past two decades, Rabassa, 66, has translated more than 30 books from the original Spanish or Portuguese. He has given English-speaking readers access to a formidable roster of Latin American authors, including Cortazar, Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jorge Amado and Octavio Paz. His work has won an array of awards, including, this past May, a $10,000 prize from the Wheatland Foundation for his "notable contribution to international literary exchange." Along the way, Rabassa earned the admiration of writers who have gained new audiences through his translations. Garcia Marquez has called...
Mario Vargas Llosa, 51, the author of such acclaimed novels as The War of the End of the World and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, had torn himself away from the proofs of his new book to embroil himself in Peru's latest crisis. Addressing the crowd in Lima, Vargas Llosa warned, "A totalitarian threat is hovering over our country." The menace: a move by Peruvian President Alan Garcia Perez to nationalize private banks...
Since he led his populist party to victory in 1985, Garcia, 38, has diminished the power and influence of the country's two major conservative parties. Now Garcia's opponents have an issue over which to do battle and, in Vargas Llosa, a persuasive crusader. "If the government takes control of the financial life of this country, it is going to have such untrammeled power that democracy will become completely destabilized," argues the writer. "Crazy Horse will fall! Crazy Horse will fall!" shouted the audience at Vargas Llosa's rally, using the nickname Garcia has earned because of his penchant...
While polls show that about 60% of Peruvians support Garcia's policy, the debate over nationalization has broken the broad consensus that sustained him through his first two years. Already there are suggestions that the right will unite behind Vargas Llosa, but the novelist denies he is seeking political office. "I'm a writer and nothing more," he says. "If this wretched law were suspended in the Senate, I would go back to my study." Few take his demurrals seriously. Vargas Llosa has himself brooded over his obsession with his homeland. "For me," he has said, "Peru is a kind...