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Touchstones : essays in literature, art and politics
- Title
- Touchstones : essays in literature, art and politics / Mario Vargas Llosa ; selected, translated and edited by John King.
- Author
- Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-
- Publication
- London : Faber and Faber, 2007.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- King, John.
- Description
- xxxii, 353 p.; 24 cm.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Contents
- Literature: Seed of dreams -- A twenty-first century novel -- Heart of darkness : the roots of humankind -- Death in Venice : the call to the abyss -- Mrs Dalloway : the intense and sumptuous life of banality -- Nadja : Nadja as fiction -- La condition humaine : the hero, the buffoon and history -- Tropic of Cancer : the happy nihilist -- Seven gothic tales : the tales of the baroness -- L'Étranger : the outsider must die -- The old man and the sea : redemption through courage -- Lolita : Lolita thirty years on -- The tin drum : the drumroll -- Deep rivers : fantasy and magic -- Neruda a hundred -- How I lost my fear of flying -- Literature and life.
- Art: A dream factory -- Grosz : a sad and ferocious man -- Two friends -- Traces of Gaugin -- The men-women of the Pacific -- The painter in the brothel -- When Paris was a fiesta -- Botero at the bullfight.
- Culture and politics: Nationalism and utopia -- The man who knew too much -- The thief in the empty house -- Culture and the new international order -- Responses to 9/11 -- Novelist in New York -- Iraq diary -- A story about rats -- The captain in his labyrinth -- The Pinochet affair -- Chilean yawns -- The odyssey of Flora Tristán.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-7126
- ISBN
- 0571214991 (hbk.)
- 9780571214990 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 70230006
- Author
- Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-
- Title
- Touchstones : essays in literature, art and politics / Mario Vargas Llosa ; selected, translated and edited by John King.
- Imprint
- London : Faber and Faber, 2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Added Author
- King, John.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-7126