Moths of Ill Omen
Malcolm Deas, 30 October 1997
News of a Kidnapping
by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman.
Cape, 291 pp., £16.99, July 1997,0 224 05002 8 Show More
by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman.
Cape, 291 pp., £16.99, July 1997,
José Asunción Silva: Obra Completa
edited by Hector Orjuela.
Unesco/Casa de la Poesía Silva, 747 pp., £40, April 1996,84 89666 06 7 Show More
edited by Hector Orjuela.
Unesco/Casa de la Poesía Silva, 747 pp., £40, April 1996,
“... is the country’s most famous lyric poet. By Vallejo’s reckoning, ten of his poems – Hector Orjuela’s monumental edition, reprinted for the centenary, is the most complete – can be guaranteed to produce the Housman reflex repeatedly, even in the most jaded sensibility. Silva is also Colombia’s most notorious literary legend: a dandy ... ”
