>I would suggest that US leftists approach politics in the tragicomic
>spirit of Samuel Beckett -- "I can't go on, I'll go on" --
>especially this year, the 100th anniversary of his birth.
You should definitely read the Goytisolo:
>His friend, the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, likens Goytisolo to
>the Irishmen Swift and Joyce: "exiles condemned to live with the
>language of their oppressions, digest it, expel it, trample on it,
>and then resign themselves . . . "
http://books.guardian.co.uk/internationalwriting/story/0,,353291,00.html