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Aficionados of duende who enjoyed George Bria's exegesis, (“Duende: Gypsy Soul and Something More” [XV, 1], of its “magical quality,” should refer to the works of George Frazier, another of its champions.
I have seen a calendar (Workman Publishing Co., New York) which defined it as “personal magnetism and charm,” and said, “Given today's extensive TV coverage, political candidates need duende if they hope to be accepted by the public.”
The Spanishness of duende is underlined by the absence of a look-alike word in the sister Romance languages, Italian and French.
Besides going to Valencia for paella, the compleat traveler in Spain should experience duende . This is not easy to arrange, however, for duende , unlike paella, cannot be made to order.
There is a term in English for a tennis player reaching a height, for a brief stretch or longer, when he cannot miss, and tennis people call it zoning . I have not heard it used in other cases, but when used it seems to equal tener duende . I do not know whether that use of duende has reached Portuguese speakers in Brazil or Portugal, but if it has not, it probably will soon, because so many Portuguese speakers are bilingual in Spanish.