| Author Quoted | Ciro Alegria |
| Title Quoted | Mundo es ancho y ajeno |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1958/02/09 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1941 |
| Quotation | Reading Ciro Alegria's "El mundo es ancho y ajeno," walking up and down the stonepath in the cold. It is a beautiful book, garrulous but simple, about an Indian village in Peru. Good reading for after dinner. Good to read a novel in which there is still respect for life, unlike the dead stuff that has been coming out of Europe and the U.S. |
| Journal | A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Life. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 3, 1952-1960.; Edited by Lawrence S. Cunningham. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 165 |
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