Brazilians in V

[Mr Craig Clark]

Andrew Dinn writes:

>.... Translated (badly, by most accounts) in the early
> 60s as `The Devil to Pay in the Backlands' it is, according to my
> ex-colleague, perhaps the nearest thing in South American literature
> to a `Ulysses' or a `Gravity's Rainbow'. Maybe Pynchon read this too?

Thanks, Andrew, and I'll look out for it: but what about Carlos 
Fuentes' _Terra Nostra_ as the GR of Latin American literature? It's 
one of those MASSIVE novels which employs every single literary 
device that the author can think of. Aah, for the good old days when 
I had time to sit and read ginormous Latin American literature for 
the fun of it...

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"