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...Foremost among the couriers from the Spanish and Portuguese is Rabassa, 62, who has spent the past two decades bringing Latin American literature north to the U.S. The authors he has translated constitute a pantheon of Hispanic letters: Garcia Márquez (Colombia), Julio Cortázar (Argentina), Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala), Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru), José Lezama Lima (Cuba), Luis Rafael Sánchez (Puerto Rico), Vinicius de Moraes (Brazil...
...canny buoyancy, the polar tugs of these two cultures. Six of the 21 features he directed were based on works by American writers, from Cornell Woolrich (The Bride Wore Black) to Henry James (The Green Room), yet they were unmistakably French in atmosphere and obsessions. In Truffaut's pantheon of directors, Hitchcock rubbed shoulders with Jean Renoir, and his own films sizzled with the tension between Hitchcock's manipulative elegance and Renoir's sharp-eyed humanism. The French title of Day for Night, the 1973 valentine to film making in which Truffaut plays a director...
...could be construed as even indirect chiding; for example, he advocated "a negotiated outcome" in Afghanistan without once mentioning the Soviet invasion and occupation of that country. His theme was peace through negotiation, and to support it he cited two historical figures who had rarely before appeared in his pantheon of quotable heroes: St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus ("a Spanish soldier who gave up the ways of war for that path of love and peace"), and Mahatma Gandhi. The Indian apostle of nonviolence, Reagan recalled, had said, "If you approached people with trust and affection...
...GOOD WAR" by Studs Terkel; Pantheon; 589 pages...
...Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky; Pantheon; 352 pages...