![]() ![]() (Interestingly, the most difficult of them all was also Argentinian, Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch. What many of these books share with In Heroes and Tombs, apart from their desire to break the mold of the conventional naturalistic novel, is a strategy of difficulty-justified-by-richness. It is a book with some claim to be the first major set-piece in that carnival of fictional fireworks which mesmerized Latin America throughout the next decade and which included such soaring rockets as Vargas Llosa's The Green House, Cabrera Infante's Three Trapped Tigers and, of course, the one book I needn't name, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, because you've all read it. ![]() In 1961, WHEN BORGES Shared the Prix International des Editeurs with Beckett, and a young Colombian journalist named Garcia Marquez published a story about an old cockfighting colonel, the Argentinian Ernesto Sabato published his second novel, Sobre heroes y tumbas, a mere 13 years after his first. By SALMAN RUSHDIE SALMAN RUSHDIE is the author of Midnight's Children August 16, 1981 ![]()
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