Volume 20, Number 6 · April 19, 1973
Latins in Manhattan
By Michael Wood
The Eyes of the Interred
by Miguel Angel Asturias, translated by Gregory Rabassa
Delacorte, 704 pp., $10.00
Triple Cross: Novellas
by Carlos Fuentes, by José Donoso, by Severo Sarduy, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine, translated by Hallie D. Taylor
Dutton, 329 pp., $8.95
Diary of the War of the Pig
by Adolfo Bioy Casares, translated by Gregory Woodruff, translated by Donald A. Yates
McGraw-Hill, 196 pp., $5.95
62: A Model Kit
by Julio Cortázar, translated by Gregory Rabassa
Pantheon, 281 pp., $6.95
Counselor Ayres' Memorial
by Machado de Assis, translated by Helen Caldwell
California, 196 pp., $7.50
The Vampire of Curitiba and Other Stories
by Dalton Trevisan, translated by Gregory Rabassa
Knopf, 288 pp., $7.95
Seven Voices: Seven Latin American Writers Talk to Rita Guibert
by Rita Guibert, translated by Frances Partridge
Knopf, 448 pp., $10.00
In spite of brilliant deviations like Three Trapped Tigers and A Hundred Years of Solitude, naturalism remains the dominant mode of fiction in Latin America. It is a naturalism that accommodates myths, symbolism, streams of consciousness, elaborate narrative techniques, but naturalism, nevertheless, is what it is.
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