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...last published in the U.S. 20 years ago. It is worth reviving as one of the best of Amado's books, which have been published in 31 languages, ranging from Icelandic to Persian. Though he writes in a far more contemporary idiom, Amado is properly considered the Mark Twain of Brazil, and he shares Twain's passion for small-town manners and morals, for scoundrels and card sharps, and for the pomposity of backwoods society, and its pitiable efforts at a cultural life...
...PUSSYCAT. Flesh is flesh and spirit is spirit, and rarely the twain do meet. A nonintellectual prostitute (Diana Sands) and a musty book clerk (Alan Alda) make the attempt seem screamingly funny. She tries to improve her mind; he loses...
...PUSSYCAT. Flesh is flesh and spirit is spirit, and rarely the twain do meet. A nonintellectual prostitute (Diana Sands) and a musty book clerk (Alan Alda) make the attempt seem screamingly funny. She tries to improve her mind; he loses...
...GOLD OF THE RIVER SEA, by Charlton Ogburn. His plot has enough vigor and ingenuity to sustain a three-year television serial, but Novelist Ogburn's most memorable achievement is his depiction of the Amazon, an evocation in the tradition of Mark Twain's 'Mississippi...
...like Zola, the sentimentalists of sex like D. H. Lawrence, the poetic demons of sex like Baudelaire. They are different from the good old-fashioned pornographers like Fanny Hill's Cleland or the masters of bawdry from Ovid to Aretino, Rabelais, Boccaccio and (in an off moment) Mark Twain. However unconventional, these writers found delight in sex; however critical of human folly, they were partisans of mankind. The new immoralists attack not only society but man and sex itself. Their writings add up to homosexual nihilism, and what Fanny Hill would have thought of them is made clear...