MEXICO VISITED
THE SUDDEN VIEW, by Sybille Bedford; Victor Gollancz. English price, 18/-. MBS. BEDFORD describes a journey from New York to Mexico, and her wanderings around Mexico. Despite some patches of beautiful writing, the book is on the whole disappointing. This may be because in the first chapter there is a description of New York in the heat of a summer evening, so skilfully written that the reader feels he has come upon a masterpiece. Unfortunately, the standard is not maintained throughout. The author, following the tendency of her sex, gives views and impressions which are essentially personal. This means that one reads far more. about (continued on next page)
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(continued from previous page) the people she met, their dress and conversation, than about the country itself. The difficulties, discomfort and unpleasantness of travel by rail and bus ate so graphically described that one feels a car would be the only bearable form of transport. Later even this ‘illusion is ' shattered by an anecdote concerning a two-miles queue awaiting petrol-a queue which takes a matter of days to liquidate. All in all, Mrs. Bedford does not fill one with a pressing desire to
visit Mexico,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 733, 31 July 1953, Page 13
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