Volume 41, Number 4 · February 17, 1994
Singing in the Rain
By John Bayley
Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories
by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman
Knopf, 188 pp., $21.00
Gabriel García Márquez: Solitude and Solidarity
by Michael Bell
St. Martin's, 160 pp., $29.95
Films can more easily be truly international than modern novels. A film's appeal is less parochial, more immediate, more comprehensive. Publishers are shy of translating and trying to sell the latest fictional masterpiece from Portugal or Turkey or Bulgaria: they know all too well how limited its appeal will be, and how limited a grasp of its real virtues will be achieved by the most sympathetically disposed reader. Even Mark Kharitenov, the first winner of the Russian Booker Prize, and an accomplished novelist in the classic Russian tradition, has still to see an English version of his work.
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