Word: symbolisme
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"It is as if someone had returned to me a missing part of my body!" Cellist-Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich exclaimed in Washington. The Russian é migré maestro could be excused the hyperbole. Other Soviet figures have sought artistic freedom in the West, but few could match the poignant symbolism...
The two men had come to symbolize the split that has dominated San Antonio's politics and social structure for years: Anglo vs. Hispanic, old money vs. new. As a result, the election turned on matters of style and symbolism, rather than any deep disagreement between the candidates over...
The Korean peninsula too has been receiving close, though more subtle, attention from Soviet military planners. For decades North Korea has performed a delicate balancing act between its giant neighbors, China and the Soviet Union, repeatedly promising each that it would not allow the other to establish a base on...
"Our sense of time is different--there is a coincidence of time, a circular time." Fuentes adds that Latin American novelists' emphasis on surrealism and employment of ancient, regional symbolism and mythology stems party from this uneven modernization process, and a preoccupation with the past "which is always present."
He's a world-reknowned writer, has been a diplomat, and is now a Fellow at Dartmouth College. For many people, Carlos Fuentes serves as a spokeman for Mexico--the country he writes his experimental and political works about. His novels such as Terra Nostra, The Death of Artemio Cruz...