Touchstones
essays on literature, art and politics
by Mario Vargas Llosa
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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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Touchstones: essays on literature, art, and politics
2011, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
- 1st American ed.
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Touchstones: essays on literature, art and politics
2007, Faber and Faber
in English
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Touchstones: Essays in literature, art and politics
2007, Faber and Faber
in English
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Includes bibliographical references.
Translated from the Spanish.
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