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Essay on Author Review On Ilan Stavans
The multifaceted Ilan Stavans is a Jewish writer, a Mexican, a writer in English, a professor at a prestigious university, author of a book on Christopher Columbus, devoted reader of Kafka and Agnon, and, above all, an observer of two civilizations, north and south of the Rio Grande.
The narrative and critical writings of Stavans are unusual not only because he is a young man but also because of his versatile and thoughtful approach. Stavans combines cultural dialogue with reviews and essays that appear in The Nation and on the editorial pages of the Boston Globe and Washington Post. He is also a fine anthologist and creator of original texts. (Sokol & Stavans, 2004)....
