| Description |
xxi, 338 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The Country of a Thousand Faces -- When Madrid was a Village -- Chronicle of the Cuban Revolution -- In a Normandy Village, Remembering Paul Escobar -- Toby, Rest in Peace -- P'tit Pierre -- Hemingway: The Shared Feast -- A Visit to Bunuel -- Luis Bunuel: A Festival of Excellent Bad Films -- Simone de Beauvoir: Les Belles Images -- Sebastian Salazar Bondy and the Vocation of the Writer in Peru -- Literature is Fire -- Literature and Exile -- Socialism and the Tanks -- A Visit to Karl Marx -- Joyce's Dubliners -- The Other Oscar -- Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook -- Letter to Haydee Santamaria -- Albert Camus and the Morality of Limits -- Bataille or the Redemption of Evil -- Sartre, Fierabras and Utopia -- The Mandarin -- Isaiah Berlin: A Hero of Our Time -- Faulkner in Laberinto -- William Faulkner: The Sanctuary of Evil -- John Dos Passos: Manhattan Transfer -- The World Cup, Spain 1982 -- The Story of a Massacre -- Freedom for the Free? -- Nicaragua at the Crossroads |
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My Son the Rastafarian -- The Trumpet of Deya -- Botero: A Sumptuous Abundance -- Szyszlo in the Labyrinth -- Degenerate Art -- A Fleeting Impression of Vaclav Havel -- Swiss Passion -- Letter to Salman Rushdie -- The 'People' and the 'Decent People': On Contemporary Peru -- The Death of Che -- Nations, Fictions -- Saul Bellow and Chinese Whispers -- Visual Contact -- The Penis or Life: The Bobbitt Affair -- The Truth of Lies |
| Summary |
"Translations of 46 short articles comprising a collection of Vargas Llosa's writings from early 1960s-93, chosen for their diversity of topics. Presented in chronological order with some grouped thematically; political and literary development stressed. Locating foreword, index. Excellent translations. Compelling selection, with most recent pieces from Desafíos a la libertad (see HLAS 56:3742)"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas |
| Notes |
"Originally published in 1996 by Faber and Faber Limited, Great Britain"--T.p. verso |
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"Published in 1997 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux"--T.p. verso |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- -- Biography.
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Authors, Spanish American -- Biography.
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Essays.
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Spanish essays -- Translations into English.
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| Author |
King, John, 1950-
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| LC no. |
97000267 |
| ISBN |
0374200386 (hc : alk. paper) |
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