The Language of Passion
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The Language of Passion

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  1. 306 pages
  2. English
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The Language of Passion

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Internationally acclaimed novelist Mario Vargas Llosa has contributed a biweekly column to Spain's major newspaper, El País, since 1977. 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. But Vargas Llosa's influence is hardly limited to politics. In some of the liveliest critical writing of his career, he makes a pilgrimage to Bob Marley's shrine in Jamaica, celebrates the sexual abandon of Carnaval in Rio, and examines the legacies of Vermeer, Bertolt Brecht, Frida Kahlo, and Octavio Paz, among others.

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Information

Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year
2011
eBook ISBN
9781429921893
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Essays
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Author’s Note
  5. Touchstone
  6. The Lady from Somerset
  7. Shadows of Friends
  8. The Morality of Cynics
  9. Postmodernism and Frivolity
  10. Tragicomedy of a Jew
  11. God Will Provide
  12. Aid for the First World
  13. Italy Is Not Bolivia
  14. The Death of the Great Writer
  15. Trench Town Rock
  16. The Prince of Doom
  17. Under the Skies of Jerusalem
  18. French Identity
  19. The Sign of the Cross
  20. Ceausescu’s House
  21. The Joys of Necrophilia
  22. The Old Man with the Bunions
  23. A Bourgeois Paradise
  24. Cassandra’s Prophecies
  25. The Immigrants
  26. The Devil’s Advocate
  27. A Defense of Sects
  28. A Walk through Hebron
  29. Seven Years, Seven Days
  30. Nudes in a Classical Garden
  31. Epitaph for a Library
  32. The Hour of the Charlatans
  33. Elephant Dung
  34. A Maiden
  35. Mandela’s Island
  36. The Other Side of Paradise
  37. Painting to Survive
  38. The Language of Passion
  39. The City of Nests
  40. The Unborn Child
  41. New Inquisitions
  42. The Weaker Sex
  43. Predators
  44. The Permanent Erection
  45. The Lost Battle of Monsieur Monet
  46. A Death So Sweet
  47. Fataumata’s Feet
  48. The Suicide of a Nation
  49. The Alexandrian
  50. The Life and Trials of Elián
  51. Pernicious Futility
  52. Index
  53. Also by Mario Vargas Llosa
  54. Copyright