...Of his own country he used to say to his French associates: "Imagine an atmosphere of opera-bouffe in which all the comic business of stage statesmen,...exquisite comicality to a discerning mind; but really we Spanish- Americans do overstep the bounds. No man of ordinary intelligence can take part in the intrigues...

...an atmosphere of opera-bouffe in which all the comic business of stage statesmen, brigands etc., and all their farcical stealing, intriguing and stabbing is done in dead earnest . . . the blood flows all the time'. Melodrama is a temptation that must be resisted by novelists if...

...intrigas de la ópera para describir las cosas de Costaguana: Imagine an atmosphere of opera-bouffe in which all the comic business of stage statesmen,...be influencing the fate of the universe. Of course, govemment in general, any govemment anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind:...

...advance on the old, as described by the cynical Decoud : Imagine an atmosphere of the op^ra bouffe, in which all the comic business of stage statesmen,...etc. etc. all their farcical stealing, intriguing, stabbing, is done in dead earnest. It is screamingly funny. . . . (Nostromo, p. 152) 1 Renouard, in...