Granta 9: John Berger: Boris

Granta: The Magazine of New Writing #9

by Bill Buford (Editor), Joan Jara (Contributor), José Donoso (Contributor)

Boris: a story of love and pain and self-destruction. Also a chronicle of an obsession with political and historical implications that extend far beyond its seemingly straightforward, spartan narrative. Plus Gabriel García Marquez on ‘The Solitude of Latin America’, with Mario Vargas Llosa and José Donoso.

252 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1983

About the author

William Holmes Buford is an American author and journalist. He is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. Buford was previously the fiction editor for The New Yorker, where he is still on staff. For sixteen years, he was the editor of Granta, which he relaunched in 1979. He is also credited with coining the term "dirty realism".

Reviews

[Ray Quirolgico · Rating 4 out of 5]

This issue collects stories that explore people and politics and the intersections of those realities. Some of the emotional detachment that comes with the tone of reporting in many of the stories left me wanting a lot more than the staccato of brief character studies but that helped move the whole set quickly.