The Language of Passion: Selected Commentary

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Macmillan, 2004 - 304 pages

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Internationally acclaimed novelist Mario Vargas Llosa has contributed a biweekly column to Spain's major newspaper, El País, 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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Table des matières

The Lady from Somerset
3
Shadows of Friends
8
The Morality of Cynics
15
Postmodernism and Frivolity
22
Tragicomedy of a Jew
28
God Will Provide
33
Aid for the First World
38
Italy Is Not Bolivia
44
Nudes in a Classical Garden
150
Epitaph for a Library
156
The Hour of the Charlatans
162
Elephant Dung
167
A Maiden
172
Mandelas Island
177
The Other Side of Paradise
183
Painting to Survive
190

The Death of the Great Writer
50
Trench Town Rock
55
The Prince of Doom
61
Under the Skies of Jerusalem
68
French Identity
76
The Sign of the Cross
82
Ceausescus House
87
The Joys of Necrophilia
94
The Old Man with the Bunions
101
A Bourgeois Paradise
107
Cassandras Prophecies
113
The Immigrants
119
The Devils Advocate
125
A Defense of Sects
131
A Walk through Hebron
136
Seven Years Seven Days
143
The Language of Passion
195
The City of Nests
201
The Unborn Child
207
New Inquisitions
213
The Weaker Sex
218
Predators
223
The Permanent Erection
229
The Lost Battle of Monsieur Monet
235
A Death So Sweet
240
Fataumatas Feet
245
The Suicide of a Nation
251
The Alexandrian
257
The Life and Trials of Elián
264
Pernicious Futility
272
Index
279
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À propos de l'auteur (2004)

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. Natasha Wimmer is a translator who has worked on Roberto Bolaño’s 2666, for which she was awarded the PEN Translation prize in 2009, and The Savage Detectives. She lives in New York.

Informations bibliographiques

TitreThe Language of Passion: Selected Commentary
AuteurMario Vargas Llosa
Traduit parNatasha Wimmer
Éditionillustrée, réimprimée
ÉditeurMacmillan, 2004
ISBN0312422547, 9780312422547
Longueur304 pages
  
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