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I finished the second novel. The Part About Almatifano. Great. Now I’m about to begin the third. The Part About Fate.

Larrazábal the driver. In love with the madwoman Lola, who yearns to be with the mad poet, who is gay, though she won’t believe it.

Major characters so far in part II:
Almalfitano
His wife Lola
His daughter Rosa
Imma (Inma) immaculada
The Mad Poet

I completed the first volume, The Part About The Critics, and simply loved it. The story functioned as a Borgian labyrinth in which all four were caught up. They thought they were looking for the mysterious writer Archimboldi but they were looking for love.

The Dean’s son. A Socratic relationship with Amalfitano.

All them are dreaming now, intensely. Dreams of the place, dreams of dislocation, dreams of lost identity.

Amalfitano is suddenly a fascinating character, subjecting the three critics to the
Most surreal Latin American aesthetic thinking. He is beginning to exert his power over these Europeans.

Notes: Archimboldi uses the alias Hans Reiter. (Or perhaps this is his real name.)

Dieter Hellfeld. (Archimboldi’s editor)
Mrs. Bubis. The wife of his publisher, now long dead.

Amalfitano - the Archimboldi expert/translator in Santa Teresa

The main characters in this first book:
Pelletier
Norris,
Espinoza,
Morini
(Benno von Archimbundo)
Edwin Johns the painter
Vanessa the prostitute and the Morrocan
Rodolfo Alatorre the young Mexican scholar
El Cerdo, Almendro

Fascinante!