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Title: Confessions of an unreconstructed romantic.
Author: Edith Grossman
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 2003
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 77 Issue: 2 Page: 28(3)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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I have written only one fan letter in my life, and that was to Alvaro Mutis. This is what happened. In the mid-1980s John Coleman gave me a novella by Alvaro to read--I think it was La nieve del almirante. I remember that I thanked him but protested in surprise and with some bewilderment, saying, "A novella by Mutis? I thought Mutis was a poet." "Yes, I know, so did I," said John. "Read it anyway." I did, and had an awe-inspiring sense of discovery: Mutis had created a character who touched me so deeply and so unexpectedly that I felt as if I had been struck by lightning. He wrote prose so sophisticated and strong, so elegant and...
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