LoLehmann@aol.com wrote: > Many south american writers have been published in France in 1996, but I > haven't read them yet either. Now that you mention it, there's a Brazilian author called Rubem Fonseca who's written some short stories and about three novels with some hb content. I'm not a fan myself, but the two Fonseca books that I've read ( "A Grande Arte"[The Great Art] and "Bufo e[and] Spallanzani- Romance") are full of knife expertise, a bit of erudition, toads, cold vengeance and castration (literally). There's also a woman called Patricia Mello (apparently a Fonseca protegee) who wrote two books so far: "Aqua Tofana" (not sure about the spelling) and "O Matador" [The Killer]. Flavio - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca