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The language of passion : selected commentary / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated by Natasha Wimmer.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating 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
- Subjects (All):
- Peruvian essays--20th century--Translations into English.
- Peruvian essays.
- Spanish literature--Translations into English.
- Spanish literature.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Spanish newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc.
- Physical Description:
- x, 292 p. ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st American ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2003.
- Summary:
- A collection of essays by one of Latin America's most influential and controversial authors, representing a decade of columns from Spain's major newspaper El País, reflects on the problems of Latin American democracy, the role of religion in public life, the future of globalization, and more.
- 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:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0374183260 (alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 50906030
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