Pynchon/Orwell/Spain - heads up.

[Burns, Erik]

Foax:

Fyi, this little blurb from today's El Pais:

Orwell como testigo, en 'Babelia'.
Por EL PAÍS.
70 Words
20 June 2003

(c) Copyright DIARIO EL PAIS, S.L. http://www.elpais.es.

El novelista estadounidense Thomas Pynchon escribe mañana en el suplemento
cultural de EL PAÍS sobre George Orwell, cuyo centenario se celebra el
próximo miércoles. Crítico con los totalitarismos del siglo XX, el autor de
1984 se comprometió con la República Española y relató el testimonio de su
compromiso en Homenaje a Cataluña, cuya edición definitiva acaba de
aparecer.

(The U.S. novelist Thomas Pynchon writes tomorrow in El Pais' cultural
supplement about George Orwell, whose centennial is celebrated next
Wednesday. A critic of the totalitarianisms of the 20th century, the author
of 1984 was committed to the Spanish Republic and gave his testimony of that
commitment in Homage To Catalonia, a definitive edition of which has just
been published.)

dunno if El Pais will just be running a spanish version of the Foreword
(perhaps a translation of the Guardian's piece) or if this is something
*new* from TRP. I'd bet on the former, but you nevva no.

etb