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...THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER AND OTHER STORIES, by Joao Guimaraes Rosa. Though rooted in the specifics of Brazil's wild interior, this collection of stories by the late author of The Devil to Pay in the Backlands bears an abundant crop of universal values...
...THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER AND OTHER STORIES, by Joao Guimaraes Rosa. The mystical core of a significant Brazilian writer is revealed in this collection of sto ries, published posthumously...
...THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER AND OTHER STORIES, by João Guimarães Rosa. The mystical core of a significant Brazilian writer is revealed in this collection of stories, published posthumously...
...students" occupied the Germanic Seminar of the Free University of Berlin. I saw and smelled, all too vividly, the results of this liberation. (There had not been the slightest provocation on the part of the professors in the department: quite the contrary.) The liberators renamed the building "Rosa Luxemburg Institut"--an insult to the memory of a noble and cultivated woman. The behavior of the German SDS resembles far more that of Herr Wessel's famous namesake Horst than of Rosa Luxemburg. Henry C. Hatfield '33 Professor of German
...stories in the collection are as ethereal. Many abound with typical Guimarāes Rosa characters-robust, self-reliant, as tough and conspicuous as knots in sawn planks. But the ones that matter most are those whose concentric fibers appear to loosen until, stubborn obstructions no longer, they begin to flow with the grain...