Word: salamanca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marriage is a desperate thing," wrote the 17th century English jurist John Selden. Three centuries later, after 13 years of seeming marital bliss, the two main characters in J. R. Salamanca's superb new novel suddenly discover what complex anguish Selden had in mind...
...CHANGE by J. R. Salamanca. 501 pages. Knopf...
...Salamanca, 45, teaches English at the University of Maryland. He explored the theme of troubled love under widely different and far more dramatic circumstances in his first two novels, The Lost Country and Lilith. Just because the Pritchards are so ordinary, the corruption wrought by self-knowledge in A Sea Change is more ironic and profound. In an attempt to provoke a return to the freshness of their early love, the Pritchards torment each other in various subtle as well as insidious ways-until nothing is left of their marriage...
What outraged the journalists most was the case of the evening paper Madrid. Its offenses: quoting a French scholar's reference to the disorders at the University of Madrid, where students have repeatedly clashed with police, and printing a remark by the rector of the University of Salamanca blaming student unrest on a "political vacuum." Finally, there was a piece by Editorial Writer Rafael Calvo Serer. Wrongly anticipating the defeat of De Gaulle, he had written: "What remains clear is the incompatibility of a personal and authoritarian government within the structures of the industrial society and with the democratic...
Lilith, in ancient Babylonian mythology, was a female embodiment of evil. In J. R. Salamanca's gaudy, gothic 1961 novel she was a wildly desirable schizophrenic whose corruptive beauty disrupted the routine of a private sanitarium. In Director Robert Rossen's movie version of the book, she is Jean Seberg, who enjoys an unholy liaison with a young therapist-in-training, lures an inmate toward destruction, steals away with a lesbian patient, and occasionally whispers improprieties into the ears of small boys...