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The Caribbean is the setting for countless literary efforts often related to piracy and swashbuckling. One memorable work of pulp fiction has in its title a geographic feature unique in its way to the islands: Fear Cay, the eleventh Doc Savage adventure by Lester Dent. Many James Bond adventures were set there. It is also well known as the location of the Pirates of the Caribbean films, featuring Port Royal. Less swashbuckling, but not lacking in man-against-the-sea exploits, is Peter Matthiessen's Far Tortuga (1975), which chronicles the adventures of a turtling crew in the late 1960's. The book's prose, informed by the Caribbean's boundless, sun-bleached expanses, is sparse, and challengingly so: Only one metaphor is used, and all dialogue unfolds unencumbered by attribution, as Matthiessen paints a picture of humanity literally and figuratively adrift.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
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