Amalia Gladhart

Ritter, Strauch et al don't appear as (live) characters in Yánez Cossío's novel, but one of the characters in Beyond the Islands/Más allá de las islas develops a fascination with the vanished Baroness and has her replicated as a plastic doll. It seems there's always room for fiction to go just a bit further than the far-out reality.

On the topic of "Books of the Archipelago," may I suggest "Beyond the Islands," my translation of Ecuadorian novelist Alicia Yánez Cossío's "Más allá de las islas"? It's just been published by UNO Press (unopress.org). Pirates, tourists, naturalists, a little magic--and a few of the characters Treherne's book portrays.