Word: nar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outward-precisely the premise that makes so much "experimental" writing so ghastly and unreadable. Gass also passes off a tautology as profundity: "I am firmly of the opinion that people who can't speak have nothing to say." This is both true and too cute by half; it nar- rows human awareness to the single focus of language, denies the very variety of living that words can celebrate...
...civil wars and chaos in the au thor's own Colombia. Garcia Márquez writes with what could be called a stream-of-consciousness technique, but the result is much more like a whirl pool. Events, characters and dialogue are all sucked down into a powerful nar rative vortex only to resurface later. In The Autumn of the Patriarch, the debris of despotism phosphoresces with decay, and the vultures in charge of that final palace cleanup are history's ageless witnesses...