Volume 41, Number 9 · May 12, 1994
Off the Map
By John Bayley
Brazil
by John Updike
Knopf, 260 pp., $23.00
In the literary climate of postmodernism it seems not too difficult for a novelist skilled in his own trade, and knowledgeable in the history of the genre, to select an exotic country or unknown milieu, and write about it with conviction, and even with his own brand of authority. Fiction today does not recognize any predominance of truths; and it accepts an alien setting in the same spirit in which a social realist used to make himself an expert on his own backyard.
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