Touchstones by Mario Vargas Llosa
One of Latin America's greatest novelists, Mario Vargas Llosa is also a most acute and wide-ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. "Touchstones" includes his readings of major twentieth-century novels, from "Heart of Darkness" to "The Tin Drum and Herzog" and major works by Hemingway, Woolf, Orwell, Camus and Nabokov. There are long studies of George Grosz, vignettes on Botero and Picasso, and an appreciation of Cezanne and Van Gogh, including a visit to Cezanne's homes in the South Seas. Also included are essays on political and social thinkers, from the nineteenth-century feminist, Flora Tristan, to Isaiah Berlin, and contemporary pieces on 9/11, the aftermath of the war in Iraq, and the terrorist attacks on London and Madrid. Fantastically intelligent, inspired and surprising, "Touchstones" is a landmark collection from one of the world's leading intellectuals.
"'Vargas Llosa has remarkable giftsHe demonstrates the super-abundant vitality of the Latin American imagination in its most challenging form.' Sunday Times"
Mario Vargas Llosa was born in 1936 in Peru. With novels including The War of the End of the World, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and The Feast of the Goat, he has established an international reputation as one of Latin America's most important authors.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571214990 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571214991 |
| Title | Touchstones |
| Author | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2007-04-05 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
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