Volume 32, Number 12 · July 18, 1985
Ah, the Fredonna Tree
By Michael Wood
A Certain Lucas
by Julio Cortázar, translated by Gregory Rabassa
Knopf, 160 pp., $12.95
Heroes Are Grazing in My Garden
by Heberto Padilla, translated by Andrew Hurley
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 250 pp., $16.95
A House in the Country
by José Donoso, translated by David Pritchard, by Suzanne Jill Levine
Knopf, 352 pp., $16.95
Julio Cortázar died in February 1984. He had become for many, as he said of his own departed heroes, Chaplin, Cocteau, Duke Ellington, Stravinsky, a person in whose death one dies a little. The writings remain, but there are questions we can no longer ask. What will he do next? How does he see his own work? What does he think of this war, that policy, this scandal, that song?
Review, 4372 words
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