Volume 32, Number 20 · December 19, 1985
Pathos and Power
By Thomas R. Edwards
Honorable Men
by Louis Auchincloss
Houghton Mifflin, 278 pp., $15.95
Luisa Domic
by George Dennison
Harper and Row, 178 pp., $14.95
The Old Gringo
by Carlos Fuentes, translated with the author by Margaret Sayers Peden
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 199 pp., $14.95
Each of these three very different novels has to do with politics, but each writer in his own way sees politics as destructive; and all three try to express the pathos governing a world that increasingly seems in other respects ungovernable.
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