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...Southern Comfort, go hollering down a road in a pickup truck with some loud rebel yells, bash some mailboxes with a baseball bat, and then go cow-tip-ping. (Quite an endorsement from a 5'4" Asian girl who mostly listens to Sarah McLachlan and likes to read Pablo Neruda poems...
...information by sifting through categories such as jazz greats, 20th century thinkers or world culture. The media gallery treats you to snippets of everything from a Beethoven concerto to the Bangladeshi national anthem, along with videos of a Kennedy speech on the Cuban missile crisis and Chilean poet Pablo Neruda reciting his verse. ($79.95; Microsoft...
This eerie moment forms the emotional and intellectual hinge of Rafael Yglesias' eighth novel, Dr. Neruda's Cure for Evil (Warner Books; 694 pages; $24.95). Unfortunately, it occurs 465 pages into the narrative, well past the halfway mark but nowhere near the end of a long, long reading haul. Psychoanalysis, the so-called talking cure, has rarely, if ever, received a talkier fictional presentation...
These issues, and many others, are unfortunately whirled about in the indiscriminate sludge of Neruda's free-associated reminiscences. To understand the doctor's treatment of Gene Kenny, readers must first endure an almost novel-length account of Neruda's exotic childhood--Spanish-Cuban father, Jewish mother--and his later adoption, after both his parents had in diverse and perverse ways betrayed him, by his fabulously wealthy maternal Uncle Bernie. As he does throughout the novel, Neruda interrupts his story with bracketed explanations of psychoanalytic hindsight. Recalling a family gathering at which he noticed the blossoming of his cousin Julie...
Those who slog through the entire novel will find it difficult to tell whether Yglesias wants to portray his Dr. Neruda as hero, fool or, when he investigates the circumstances leading to Gene's fiasco, charlatan. With first-person narration, it is left to the reader to make that judgment. But what to make of a man who tells his lover, "Diane, if you review what you just said carefully, I really believe you'll see a contradiction." This is a man to track down evil...