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...issue since Afghanistan has exacerbated differences in the Communist world as much as Poland. For months Enrico Berlinguer's inde pendent-minded Partita Comunista Italiano had become ever bolder in its sup port for Poland's independent unions. In a communique last December, it even warned the Kremlin of "extremely grave consequences" in the event of a Soviet invasion-meaning that the P.C.I, might break with Moscow altogether. Last week, in a rare public display of a Communist family quarrel, the Soviet Communist Party was revealed as having blasted Berlinguer in no uncertain terms. The Italian weekly Panorama...
...fact, if one disregards all the obliquities and subtle strategies of presentation, Port Tropique reveals itself as essentially a novel of the basic high-tension, high-adventure mode, not really much different from those pharmacy book-racknumbers with titles like the Tortuga Transfer or Midnight in Morocco. It's the stuff of a million Paramount pictures--drop-points, bills in large denominations, an underworld contact nicknamed El Serpiente, a bartender named Alfonso. The protagonist, Franz Hall, like most heroes of pulp thrillers, has a past to undo. Attracted more by the suicidal romance of risk than by the money...
...Port Tropique is a far cry from the conventional popular trash, for in it Gifford engages in a sophisticated formal and stylistic experiment that uses the elements of obviously commercial work to create a complex piece of serious art. The enigmatic construction and brilliant prose set the novel far above the grovelling, panting plague of stories for boys, housewives and subway-riders, up in the gallery we reserve for high...
...that it's a museum piece. Port Tropique remains an adventure story. But it is an adventure story stripped of almost everything but certain odd luminous moments and executed with such shrewd knowingness, such literary hipness that it becomes "experimental" and "artistic...
Every clipped sentence Gifford gets out is noteworthy. Despite Port Tropique's out-of-the-ordinary double intent--to tell an adventure story while creating a work of art--it is a book capable of electrifying a much larger audience than its small press publication might indicate. Gifford will be a voice for the decade...