The Language of Passion: Selected Commentary - Brossura

Vargas Llosa, Mario

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0312422547 ISBN 13: 9780312422547

Casa editrice: Picador USA, 2004

Riassunto

A collection of essays by one of Latin America's most influential and controversial authors, representing a decade of columns from Spain's major newspaper El País, reflects on the problems of Latin American democracy, the role of religion in public life, the future of globalization, the sexual frenzy of Carnival in Rio, and more. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

MARIO VARGAS LLOSA was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010 "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." Peru's foremost writer, he has been awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor, and the Jerusalem Prize. His many works include The Feast of the Goat, The Bad Girl, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The War of the End of the World, and The Storyteller. He lives in London.

MARIO VARGAS LLOSA was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010 "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." Peru's foremost writer, he has been awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor, and the Jerusalem Prize. His many works includeThe Feast of the Goat, The Bad Girl, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter,The War of the End of the World, and The Storyteller. He lives in London.

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Internationally acclaimed novelist Mario Vargas Llosa has contributed a biweekly column to Spain's major newspaper, El Pais, 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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• Editore: Picador USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0312422547
• ISBN 13: 9780312422547
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 308