Volume 37, Number 15 · October 11, 1990
Liberators
By Robert M. Adams
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
The General in His Labyrinth
by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman
Knopf, 285 pp., $19.95
Collected Novellas (Leaf Storm, Nobody Writes to the Colonel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold)
by Gabriel García Márquez
HarperCollins, 249 pp., $22.95
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman
Penguin, 348 pp., $9.95 (paper)
In Praise of the Stepmother
by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen Lane
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 149 pp., $18.95
The War of the End of the World
by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen Lane
Avon, 568 pp., $9.95 (paper)
Some years ago a society of malcontents planted a large bomb under the roadway leading from Colombey-les-deux-Eglises to Paris. They exploded it almost on time, and blew up, instead of General de Gaulle, a car full of his bodyguards and secretaries. The general emerged from his undamaged vehicle, surveyed the carnage with a professional eye, and said simply, 'Dommage. Une belle sortie.' In effect: A fine opportunity wasted.
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