Touchstones : essays on literature, art and politics / Mario Vargas Llosa ; selected, translated and edited by John King.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: London : Faber and Faber, 2007.Description: xxxii, 353 pISBN:- 0571214991 (hard)
- 9780571214990 (hard)
- 864.64 VAR-T(R)
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Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Translated from the Spanish.
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