![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sent to Spain for a classical education, his innate social consciousness is nourished by early-19th-century radicalism. No, is his reply, “but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.” “Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega?” he is asked. The result of a volatile union of a liberal Spanish aristocrat and an enigmatic Shoshone Indian who, for love’s sake, “tried to renounce her origins and become a Spanish lady” but “never stopped dreaming in her own language,” Diego is, literally, a noble savage imbued with a romanticist’s sense of justice. Born in Peru, raised in Chile and in recent years a resident of California, she rooted her story in a re-creation of Latin California and remade Diego de la Vega as the first real All-American hero. (Bob Kane, Batman’s creator, paid homage by having Bruce Wayne’s parents murdered while coming from a theater playing “The Mark of Zorro.”)Īllende reached into this cultural compost heap of pulp fiction, movies and TV and forged a character with a soul and a heritage. Along the way, Zorro was the inspiration for dozens of crime fighters. ![]()
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