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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.
Contributor:
Wimmer, Natasha, translator.
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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