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Tuesday, 1:08 p.m., the U.S. embassy in Skopje. Holbrooke and Hill meet with Rugova. It's 90[degrees]F., but the Kosovar novelist and literature professor arrives wearing a sweater, coat and red silk ascot. As the men sit down, Holbrooke asks Rugova if he wants to remove his jacket. "No," Rugova responds. "I'm an Albanian snake...
DEATH REVEALED. CARLOS CASTANEDA, believed to be 72, enigmatic personality who was either an unfairly vilified anthropologist or a wildly inventive novelist, depending on whether his mind-bending encounters with a Yaqui Indian sorcerer are taken as fact or fiction; who died on April 27; of liver failure; in Los Angeles. An anthropology grad student at UCLA, Castaneda published The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge in 1968, the first of many accounts of his apprenticeship to Mexican shaman Don Juan. Readers soaked the books up, even though critics thought Don Juan was just a figment...
Mario Vargas Llosa the politician ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of Peru in 1990 as a fiscal conservative. Happily, Vargas Llosa the winning novelist remains a staunch romantic libertarian. The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 260 pages; $23) is, like his delectable Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977; translated into English in 1982), a roguish and sophisticated sex comedy with a few brain teasers tipped...
...novelist takes full advantage of his professional prerogative: to grant complete freedom to the facts of his life. Don Rigoberto is an exuberant alteration of autobiography in which anything can happen. That includes a teenager's love affair with his stepmother and, perhaps even more socially unacceptable, book burning by a bibliophile. The Don, a Lima insurance executive by day and an aesthete at night, regularly incinerates his unwanted books and pictures to make room for new additions. Why not donate them to libraries and museums? His answer ("I realized it was stupid to inflict on other eyes a work...
...laugh it off, or pretend that the failure was O.K. She certainly did not understand what became apparent later, that Greg's real passion, his father's ghost mocking him cruelly, was to dress in women's clothes. And in middle age, sober, married, a mother and a novelist (Walking into the River), she still can't quite accept this joker in the hand life dealt her. She writes, "There are no greeting cards that read, 'Thinking of you fondly, transvestite...