Word: opoponax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...copies were publicly burned in Lima. Vargas sets up the national military academy, which he attended, as a metaphor of his homeland, and in reciting what he sees as the horrors of life at school suggests what he thinks of life in Peru. More sophisticated is The Opoponax (Simon & Schuster) by France's lissome Monique Wittig, 31. A disciple of Alain Robbe-Grillet, the French fanatic whose "objective" novels systematically reduce people to objects, Author Wittig has composed a synoptical illusion that describes how a little girl grows up by assembling on the page a collage of things...
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