Touchstones : essays in literature, art and politics / Mario Vargas Llosa ; selected, translated and edited by John King.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-2025.

Contributor:

King, John.

Language:

English

Spanish

Physical Description:

xxxii, 253 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Faber and Faber, 2007.

Language Note:

Translated from the Spanish.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0571214991

9780571214990

OCLC:

70230006