Volume 37, Number 18 · November 22, 1990
Goodbye, Columbus
By Garry Wills
The Harp and the Shadow
by Alejo Carpentier, translated by Thomas Christensen, by Carol Christensen
Mercury House, 159 pp., $16.95
The Dogs of Paradise
by Abel Posse, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
Atheneum, 301 pp., $17.95
The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy
by Kirkpatrick Sale
Knopf, 453 pp., $24.95
A funny thing happened on the way to the quincentennial observation of America's 'discovery.' Columbus got mugged. This time the Indians were waiting for him. He comes now with an apologetic air—but not, for some, sufficiently apologetic. There are plans to blockade harbors when replicas of his caravels arrive in 1992. Statues of the man have become the sites for demonstrations. He comes to be dishonored.
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