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"How Good is Gabriel Garcia Marquez?"
Flawed Marvels Joseph Epstein, in Commentary (May 1983), 165 East 56th St., New York, N.Y.
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Last year, Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, won the Nobel Prize in literature at the youthful age of 54. Is he already a great writer, asks Epstein, editor of the American Scholar, or just a very talented one?
Since it first appeared in 1967, One Hundred Years of S...
the left- ist Mujahedeen-al-Khalq that took the lives of several senior govern- ment officials.
Systematic repression of dissent-there have been 4,500 documented executions since Khomeini took power in 1979-has been vital to the regime's survival. Another key: effective "state-building." Khomeini quickly replaced the Shah's bureaucrats with loyalists; he established new quasi-governmental organizations, such as the 150,000-man Revo- lutionary Guards and thousands of neighborhood watch...
Geoffrey Swedish Stew Smith, in Journal of the Institute for So-
cioeconomic Studies (Sprine 1983). Air-
port Rd., White plain;, ~.~.*10604.
In Sweden, have they gone about as far as they can go?
The nation's Social Democratic party ruled without interruption for 44 years (1932-76) as it gradually expanded the welfare state. Since its return to power late last year, writes Smith, a London Times columnist, the search for new initiatives has forced it to contemplate programs considered beyond...
by W.H. Parker
Oxford, 1982
295 pp. $34.95
by Unni Wikan
Johns Hopkins, 1982
314 pp. $23.50
by Barbara Villet
Everest House, 1982
255 pp. $16.95
by Barbara Taylor
Pantheon, 1983
394 pp. $9.95
intro. by Estellc Williams
Louisiana State, 1983
276 pp. $19.95
by Carol A. O'Connor
SUNY, 1983
283 pp. $34.50