| Touchstones: Essays on Literature, Art, and Politics Contributor(s): Llosa, Mario Vargas (Author), King, John (Selected by), King, John (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0374278377 ISBN-13: 9780374278373 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| LCCN: 2010940200 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.90 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE One of Latin America's most garlanded novelists--and the recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature--Mario Vargas Llosa is also an acute and wide-ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. Touchstones collects Vargas Llosa's brilliant readings of seminal twentieth-century novels, from Heart of Darkness to The Tin Drum; incisive essays on political and social thinkers; and contemporary pieces on 9/11 and the immediate aftermath of the war in Iraq. Fantastically intelligent, inspired, and surprising, Touchstones is a landmark collection of essays from one of the world's leading writers and intellectuals. |
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.King, John: - John King edited From Oslo to Jerusalem from I. B. Tauris.King, John: - John King edited From Oslo to Jerusalem from I. B. Tauris. |