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Cocksure and with a track record of travel that includes a stint in the Peace Corps. Paul Theroux, too, has styled himself in the mold of those American writers who demand consideration of their contribution to the literature of travel. He writes about the world as if a were a marvelously crafted gadget to be pulled apart and played with, something wondrous in all its aspects yet entirely susceptible to the grasp of his imagination...
Another travel writer, one who confined his searchings to the space within the borders of his native country, may actually provide perhaps the best prototype of Theroux's style. Jack Kerouac broke out into the open road in the mid-50s with the coitus-and narcotic-addled bliss of a youth set free from the narrow confines of hometown and ceremonial life. Theroux has also journeyed on the open road, but on a far more expansive one. Encompassing both adventure and introspection, he has recorded journeys from Victoria Station to Siberia, and back, in The Old Railway Bazaar; and from...
...THEROUX'S INCLINATION is obvious. Not particularly interested in the suburban soap-opera life of America or the decaying, over-exploited one of Europe, he has taken to the more exotic of the world's climates and locales. From the chatter and odor of the Howrah station in Calcutta to the more sympatico setting of Costa Rica, Theroux finds himself obsessed with a world beyond the borders of affluence and gratuitous soul-searchings. His proposition is pretty much a remedy for boredom--his own, and that of us who bother to take the train-rides with him. For what Paul...
FICTION: The Annotated Snark, Martin Gardner /The Collected Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer /The Country Between Us, Carolyn Forché /The Dean's December, Saul Bellow /Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Anne Tyler /The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux...
FICTION: The Annotated Snark, Martin Gardner∙The Country Between Us, Carolyn Forché The Dean's December, Saul Bellow A Flag for Sunrise, Robert Stone The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux The Villa Golitsyn, Piers Paul Read