Plus: Notes on a Forgotten Genius; Paolo Veronese; Chaim Grade
| Scientific theories about the origin of the universe often involve a vigorous give-and-take between speculation and discovery. Encounters with a forgotten genius. The majesty, serenity, and opulence of Paolo Veronese’s paintings bolstered the myth of Venice’s vibrancy at a time of social, political, and religious decline. Chaim Grade became a writer in Lithuania but wrote his best novels in the Bronx after the Holocaust, recording in Yiddish the conflict between Jewish tradition and secular thinking that had characterized a whole world swept away. Free from the ArchivesIn the Review’s May 26, 1994, issue, Alma Guillermoprieto wrote about the life and novels of Mario Vargas Llosa, who died this past April, aged eighty-nine. Guillermoprieto took up A Fish in the Water, his account of his coming of age, career, and, eventually, failed campaign for president of Peru—he lost to Alberto Fujimori—in 1990. “One is relieved to learn,” she wrote, “that his disastrous campaign was but one episode in a life generously filled with drama, and that a sense of proportion and irony provided by experience has allowed his ego a swift recovery.” “And yet, who but the novelist Vargas Llosa has done a better job of describing the mechanisms of power, despotism, and corruption as practiced in his native country?” Save $168 on an inspired pairing!
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