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The language of passion / Mario Vargas Llosa ; [translated by Natasha Wimmer].
Van Pelt Library PQ8498.32.A65 L4613 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-2025.
- Standardized Title:
- Lenguaje de la pasión. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 292 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
- Summary:
- Since 1977, Vargas Llosa has contributed a biweekly column to Spain's major newspaper, "El Pais." 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.
- Contents:
- The lady from Somerset
- Shadows of friends
- The morality of cynics
- Postmodernism and frivolity
- Tragicomedy of a Jew
- God will provide
- Aid for the first world
- Italy is not Bolivia
- The death of the great writer
- Trench town rock
- The prince of doom
- Under the skies of Jerusalem
- French identity
- The sign of the cross
- Ceausescu's house
- The joys of Necrophilia
- The old man with the bunions
- A bourgeois paradise
- Cassandra's prophecies
- The immigrants
- The devil's advocate
- A defense of sects
- A walk through Hebron
- Seven years, seven days
- Nudes in a classical garden
- Epitaph for a library
- The hour of the charlatans
- Elephant dung
- A maiden
- Mandela's island
- The other side of paradise
- Painting to survive
- The language of passion
- The city of nests
- The unborn child
- New inquisitions
- The weaker sex
- Predators
- The permanent erection
- The lost battle of Monsieur Monet
- A death so sweet
- Fataumata's feet
- The suicide of a nation
- The Alexandrian
- The life and trials Elián
- Pernicious futility.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0374183260
- 9780374183264
- OCLC:
- 50906030
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