Making Waves: Essays 1962-93

Mario Vargas Llosa

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571303250
• Subtopic: Literary Essays
• Index: Literature

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Mario Vargas Llosa has been making waves in cultural and political spheres for over thirty years. Making Waves presents for the first time in English a collection of his essays, a journey through time, through books, and through different geographical locations, plotting the intellectual biography of one of the world's finest writers. We follow Vargas Llosa from Peru to France, where he writes on Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Camus, visits the dog cemetery which contains the tomb of Rin Tin Tin, and describes the life of the aspirant writer in the Paris of the 1960s. In Britain, he examines the writings of Doris Lessing and Salman Rushdie, the house in Dean Street where Karl Marx lived, and - in a hilarious and celebrated memoir - considers the transformation of his son, Gonzalo, into a rastafarian.

Table of contents

• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• The Country of a Thousand Faces
• When Madrid was a Village
• Chronicle of the Cuban Revolution
• In a Normandy Village, Remembering Paúl Escobar
• Toby, Rest in Peace
• P’tit Pierre
• Hemingway: The Shared Feast
• A Visit to Buñuel
• Luis Buñuel: A Festival of Excellent Bad Films
• Simone de Beauvoir: Les Belles Images
• Sebastián Salazar Bondy and the Vocation of the Writer in Peru
• Literature is Fire
• Literature and Exile
• Socialism and the Tanks
• A Visit to Karl Marx
• Joyce’s Dubliners
• The Other Oscar
• Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook
• Letter to Haydée Santamaría
• Albert Camus and the Morality of Limits
• Bataille or the Redemption of Evil
• Sartre, Fierabrás and Utopia
• The Mandarin
• Isaiah Berlin: A Hero of Our Time
• Faulkner in Laberinto
• William Faulkner: The Sanctuary of Evil
• John Dos Passos: Manhattan Transfer
• The World Cup, Spain 1982
• The Story of a Massacre
• Freedom for the Free?
• Nicaragua at the Crossroads
• My Son the Rastafarian
• The Trumpet of Deyá
• Botero: A Sumptuous Abundance
• Szyszlo in the Labyrinth
• Degenerate Art
• A Fleeting Impression of Václav Havel
• Swiss Passion
• Letter to Salman Rushdie
• The ‘People’ and the ‘Decent People’: On Contemporary Peru
• The Death of Che
• Nations, Fictions
• Saul Bellow and Chinese Whispers
• Visual Contact
• The Penis or Life: The Bobbit Affair
• The Truth of Lies
• Index
• About the Author
• By the Same Author
• Copyright