An edition of Touchstones: essays on literature, art and politics (2007)

Touchstones

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An edition of Touchstones: essays on literature, art and politics (2007)

Touchstones

essays on literature, art, and politics

1st American ed.

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  • 1 Want to read

Touchstones collects Vargas Llosa's 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. --from publisher description

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Pages
354

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Subjects

Latin American essays, Travel, English literature, History and criticism, English literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Vargas llosa, mario, 1936-, Iraq, description and travel, Essays

People

Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-)

Places

Iraq

Times

20th century
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Cover of: Touchstones
Touchstones: essays on literature, art, and politics
2011, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English - 1st American ed.
Cover of: Touchstones
Touchstones: essays on literature, art and politics
2007, Faber and Faber
in English
Cover of: Touchstones
Touchstones: Essays in literature, art and politics
2007, Faber and Faber
in English

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Edition Notes

Originally published: London : Faber and Faber, 2007.

"This volume includes the eight central articles from the Iraq Diary."--p. xxviii.

Includes bibliographical references.

Translated into English from the original Spanish.

Published in
New York
Copyright Date
2007

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Dewey Decimal Class
864/.64
Library of Congress
PQ8498.32.A65 T68 2011, PQ8498.32.A65T68

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxii, 354 p. ;
Number of pages
354

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25273333M
ISBN 10
0374278377
ISBN 13
9780374278373
LCCN
2010940200
OCLC/WorldCat
681499642

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One of Latin America's greatest novelists, Mario Vargas Llosa is also a most acute and wide ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. Touchstones includes his readings of major twentieth century novels, from Heart of Darkness to The Tin Drum and Herzog, and major works by Hemingway, Woolf, Orwell, Camus and Nabokov. There are long studies of George Grosz, vignettes on Botero and Picasso, and an appreciation of Cezanne and Van Gogh, including a visit to Cezanne's homes on the South Seas. Also included are essays on political and social thinkers, from the nineteenth century feminist, Flora Tristan, to Isaiah Berlin, and contemporary pieces on 9/11, the aftermath of the war in Iraq, and the terrorist attacks on London and Madrid.

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