| Edition |
1st Farrar, Straux and Giroux ed. |
| Description |
xxi, 338 pages ; 24 cm |
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Peruvians lcdgt |
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Men lcdgt |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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, volume 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas |
| 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 -- Faulker 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 -- 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. |
| Subject |
Peruvian essays -- 20th century -- Translations into English.
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Peruvian essays. (OCoLC)fst01058927
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
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Translations. (OCoLC)fst01423791
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Essays.
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| Added Author |
King, John, 1950-
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| Added Title |
Works. Selections. English. 1997
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| ISBN |
0374200386 (hc ; alk. paper) |
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9780374200381 (hc ; alk. paper) |
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