Brazilians in V (fwd)

[the Robot Vegetable]

On Mon, 1 Jul 1996, Mr Craig Clark wrote:
> 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...

	My impression is that it is the Great Spanish Novel, for the
focus is on the nature of life which endures internal pressures (I
mean the Inquisition, predominantly) and exterior pressures (that of
hounding the Moslem off the penisula.)  A short central section deals
with the acyivity that occurs in the New World, but it is largely
about the impact on Spain.

	veg