Volume 42, Number 15 · October 5, 1995
Adrift in Iberia
By David Gilmour
The Stone Raft
by José Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero
Harcourt Brace, 292 pp., $23.00
The Pyrenees have been more of a psychological barrier for mankind than a physical one. Although armies have long known how to go round them, ideas have seldom followed the drums. So often they seem to have been launched at the center, to have hit the mountain tops and then bounced back to the thrower; on occasion they have cleared the heights only to fall into ungrateful hands that have hurled them furiously back.
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