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El Ombú is clearly one of Hudson’s greatest artistic achievements; in fact, only Green Mansions is of the same imaginative order as the two main stories in this volume, ‘El Ombú’ and ‘Marta Riquelme’. Ruth Tomalin says outright that ‘El Ombú’ ‘is a masterpiece’; while John T. Frederick remarks of the story: ‘Few works of fiction of comparable length, in English or in any other literature, equal it in essential power or in completeness of achievement.’130 The power and the tragic intensity of the story are only equalled in Hudson’s own work by ‘Marta Riquelme’ and by the last part of Green Mansions.
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Notes
Edward Garnett, ‘A Note on Hudson’s Romances’, Green Mansions; London, 1923 edition, p. vi.
In Guy Davenport’s paraphrase, this reads: ‘Action is character, and character fate.’ The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays; San Francisco, 1981, p. 264.
Ezra Pound, Selected Prose 1909–1965, ed. William Cookson; London, 1973, p. 402.
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Miller, D. (1990). El Ombú. In: W. H. Hudson and the Elusive Paradise. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20550-9_15
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