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...sounded like a sitcom version of The Dogs of War, after rewrites by V.S. Naipaul and Woody Allen. Even the feds joked about a "Bayou of Pigs." Ten men, mostly Southerners and mostly Ku Klux Klan members, were arrested last week by federal agents at a marina near New Orleans and charged with organizing an expedition against a friendly nation...
...Chatwin is no V.S. Naipaul balefully chronicling the political travesties of the Third World. His book is both a luminous historical document and an exploitation of the surreal past. The author's talent for invoking history's black magic is evident in this description of the interior of a rotting Da Silva house: "Dom Francisco's wardrobe, held together by its paint surface alone, lasted until 1957, when it collapsed, revealing a wreckage of whalebone stays and shreds of black taffeta that fluttered upwards like flakes of carbonized paper Bruce Chatwin . . . the pictures were...
...Return of Eva Perén, V.S. Naipaul...
NONFICTION: Fatal Flowers, Rosemary Daniell ∙ Maybe, Lillian Hellman Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook ∙ The Last Nomad, Wilfred Thesiger ∙ The Return of Eva Peron, V.S. Naipaul ∙ Thirty Seconds, Michael J. Arlen ∙ Wilderness of Mirrors, David C. Martin
...leader cannot will an identity on a people by angry decree; this is Naipaul's message. It is important, but only one small part of a very large problem. There is no guarantee that if leaders clean up their rhetoric, that if developing nations write their histories with the same care they use to design industry, they will be better prepared to solve their problems. In elevating culture to a position of primacy, Naipaul sometimes forgets that developing a history is no substitute for developing an economy...