| The Language of Passion: Selected Commentary Contributor(s): Llosa, Mario Vargas (Author), Wimmer, Natasha (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0312422547 ISBN-13: 9780312422547 Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2004 Annotation: Internationally acclaimed novelist Mario Vargas Llosa has contributed a biweekly column to Spain' s major newspaper, El Pai s, since 1977. In this collection of columns from the 1990s, Vargas Llosa weighs in on the burning questions of the last decade, including the travails of Latin American democracy, the role of religion in civic life, and the future of globalization. But Vargas Llosa' s influence is hardly limited to politics. In some of the liveliest critical writing of his career, he makes a pilgrimage to Bob Marley' s shrine in Jamaica, celebrates the sexual abandon of Carnaval in Rio, and examines the legacies of Vermeer, Bertolt Brecht, Frida Kahlo, and Octavio Paz, among others. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 864.64 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.65 lbs) 304 pages |
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| Publisher Description: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Internationally acclaimed novelist Mario Vargas Llosa has contributed a biweekly column to Spain's major newspaper, El Pa s, since 1977. In this collection of columns from the 1990s, Vargas Llosa weighs in on the burning questions of the last decade, including the travails of Latin American democracy, the role of religion in civic life, and the future of globalization. But Vargas Llosa's influence is hardly limited to politics. In some of the liveliest critical writing of his career, he makes a pilgrimage to Bob Marley's shrine in Jamaica, celebrates the sexual abandon of Carnaval in Rio, and examines the legacies of Vermeer, Bertolt Brecht, Frida Kahlo, and Octavio Paz, among others. |
Contributor Bio(s): Llosa, Mario Vargas: - Mario Vargas Llosa is Peru's foremost author and the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1994 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor, and in 1995 he won the Jerusalem Prize. His many distinguished works include The Storyteller, The Feast of the Goat, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Death in the Andes, In Praise of the Stepmother, The Bad Girl, Conversation in the Cathedral, The Way to Paradise, and The War of the End of the World. He lives in London.Wimmer, Natasha: - Natasha Wimmer is a translator who has worked on Roberto Bolano's 2666, for which she was awarded the PEN Translation prize in 2009, and The Savage Detectives. She lives in New York. |