Volume 18, Number 6 · April 6, 1972
Betrayals
By Michael Wood
An Orange Full of Dreams
by Antoni Gronowicz
Dodd, Mead, 276 pp., $6.95
How She Died
by Helen Yglesias
Houghton Mifflin, 338 pp., $6.95
Betrayed by Rita Hayworth
by Manuel Puig, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine
Dutton, 222 pp., $6.95
Leaf Storm and Other Stories
by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa
Harper & Row, 146 pp., $6.50
'Nothing intrudes between her and the observer except the observer's neurosis,' Kenneth Tynan once wrote of Greta Garbo's films. And Rouben Mamoulian, the director of Queen Christina, was even more explicit: 'I want your face to be a blank sheet of paper, the writing to be done by every member of the audience….' I'm not sure that this is really true of Garbo's face in films, but certainly her famous seclusion works in this way. We people her life with everything we would like to see there: troubled memories, guilt, shyness, hasty meetings with millionaires, a secret, lifelong romance. We respect not her privacy but the dreams it permits.
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