Tuesday, March 12, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Cuban exile explains experimental novel
Free association of ideas and sounds with almost no structure of time or setting characterizes the novels written by the experimental Spanish-American school of writers, according to a Cuban author.
Lino Novas Calvo, Cuban short story writer and visiting professor of literature at Syracuse University, described characteristics of the new literary movement Monday afternoon in the Kansas Union Big Eight Room. His visit
was sponsored by the department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Novels written by the Spanish- American experimental writers are almost totally different from 19th-century forms, Calvo said. These writers mix times and settings, introduce and withdraw characters without explanation and invent new words in their novels.
The novels contain no plot, lack sociological or political messages and contain an increase in "scandalous and indecent" subjects.
Two English speaking writers—William Faulkner and James Joyce—have had a major influence on the Spanish-American experimentalists, Calvo said.
Calvo fled Cuba as a political exile in October, 1960, at the onset of the Cuba regime. Before his exile he was an editor of the weekly magazine Bohemia which was strongly against the Castro takeover.
In addition to his work at Syracuse University, Calvo is now assistant editor of Bohemia Libre, published in New York.
Calvo has written short stories, a biography and several novels. Some of his works have been published in English as well as Spanish.
KU places fourth in debate tourney
The University of Houston debate team of David Seikel and B. L. Ware won first place in the Heart of America Debate Tournament in the Kansas Union Saturday.
Loyola placed second followed by the University of Denver and San Fernando Valley State College in a tie for third.
KU's Bob Campbell, Topeka senior, and Jim Klumpp, Coffeyville senior, placed fourth losing to Loyola 3-0.
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Forty-eight teams representing 44 schools participated in the tournament.
McCarthy group to meet Thursday
"Kansans for Alternatives in '68," KU's chapter of "Kansans for McCarthy," will hold an organizational meeting 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Wesley Foundation.
The group will begin local activities and elect local and student officers at the meeting. State activities, plans, projects and objectives will also be discussed.
The organization is being coordinated by Roger E. Kanet, assistant professor of political science, and Paul Steeves, St. Louis, Mo., graduate student.
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