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...hard to believe, however, that even the lowliest peasant is totally unaware that his country faces an uncertain and perhaps worrisome future. Dominated for a quarter of a century by the ideas and personality of one man, China has yet to go through the experience, always wrenching in a one-party state, of a transferal of supreme state power. But Mao Tse-tung is now 81; although apparently in command of his party, he is physically very feeble. His much heralded meetings with foreign dignitaries, held usually in his book-lined study, are always spur-of-the-moment affairs, apparently...
...Berlin journalist named Joseph Roth put this sensitivity into a fine novel, which Eva Tucker has translated beautifully. The novel tells about three generations of the Trotta family, beginning with the grandfather, a Slovene peasant named Joseph who accidentally saves his emperor's life at the Battle of Solferino. Afterwards everyone calls the peasant the hero of Solferino--even the schoolbooks retell the lies about him--and he becomes a baron...
FRANZ TROTTA thinks of eastern Austria as a wilderness where bears and uncivilized peasants run untamed. But the peasant who serves as his son's body-servant can still desert and go back home. If the army catches him it will hang him, but the rest of his village won't given him away, and no bombardier will reduce them both to dust without ever seeing either. "In those days before the Great War when the events narrated in this book took place, it had not yet become a matter of indifference whether a man lived or died," Roth begins...
Since World War II, Mexico has been an island of stability and increasing prosperity in Latin America, a model of an underdeveloped, peasant society's coming peacefully into the modern world. No more. The country is not only showing the common strains of inflation-now running at about 30% a year, or about triple the U.S. rate-but is also troubled by terrorism and guerrilla warfare. In the past year, several prominent Mexican industrialists and politicians and a U.S. diplomat have been kidnaped by the terrorists. The diplomat, Terrance Leonhardy, consul general in Guadalajara, was later released after...
...chauffeured himself from the low-budget The Spider's Stratagem through Last Tango in Paris to his current luxury-class movie, 1900, now being shot near Parma. The film, chronicling eight decades of Italian history, stars Burt Lancaster as a patriarchal land baron and Sterling Hayden as a peasant farmer. Expected to cost $6.5 million, it will be the most expensive movie in Italian history. Neither budget nor historical panorama gives Bertolucci pause...