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Although never a Nobel Laureate—which some say is a result of Borges’ politics—the writer shared the first Prix Formentor with Irish poet Samuel Beckett in 1961. The award, given to writers judged to have made a lasting contribution to world literature, led to a shower of invitations that ultimately brought Borges to the United States and Harvard, where he delivered the Norton Lectures (recently published in a collection, This Craft of Verse...
...find rather cloying. Temp is "Ole Simon," as in Simon Legree; Nancy is "Den Mother"; Joe Raff is "Tío Pepe"); Judy is "Kid Chocolate"; and Bone, naturally, is "Billy Bones." Home is headquarters, and headquarters is home: Villa Fielding, a $400,000 estate in the beach resort of Formentor, a 1½-hour drive across Majorca from Palma, the Spanish island's capital. The staff spends anywhere from two to seven months a year on the road, inspecting new hotels and restaurants, revisiting those already mentioned in the guide. When a trip is in the offing, Villa Fielding becomes...
...switchboard of the nearby Hotel Formentor. The basic writing of the Travel Guide to Europe is done by Fielding and Joe Raff, who mimics his master's prose, which has been described as Rotarian baroque. Judy Raff and Robert Bone are mainly responsible for the Super-Economy Guide, and Nancy Fielding is doyenne of the Shopping Guide...
...Danish government ran a survey and was amazed to discover that between one-third and one-half of all Americans who visited between 1948 and 1950 had come at Fielding's recommendation. Nancy and Temple moved from New York to Denmark in 1951, and four months later settled in Formentor, where they built up their remarkable establishment...
...author, a 28-year-old native of Frankfurt, has won the $10,000 Formentor Prize, given by a group of European and American publishers, for new fiction. The award is deserved. She lavishes too much space on grand paragraphs of involuted prose, and in so doing, she loses valuable dramatic time. But in her child's garden of nightmares are terrifying visions of a deformed and demented time...