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Article: The Harp and the Shadow.
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- The Nation
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- October 21, 1991
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THE HARP AND THE SHADOW. By Alejo Carpentier Mercury House. 159pp 1695.
We should probably begin by discounting entirely Homero Aridjis's 1492, since it really has nothing to do with Columbus, except that the narrator sets off with him on the first voyage in the final paragraph of the book; indeed, for literary if not commercial purposes it might better have been served by a different title. It is in fact a somewhat slow-going pastiche of ordinary people and quotidian events designed to show what life was like for Jews (and conversos) in Spain from the first all-out pogrom in 1391 to the final expulsion of the Jews in 1492. It is harrowing history, a grisly ...
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