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Making Waves: Essays 1962-93
About this book
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.
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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 PaĂșl Escobar
- Toby, Rest in Peace
- Pâtit Pierre
- Hemingway: The Shared Feast
- A Visit to Buñuel
- Luis Buñuel: A Festival of Excellent Bad Films
- Simone de Beauvoir: Les Belles Images
- SebastiĂĄn 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
- Joyceâs Dubliners
- The Other Oscar
- Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook
- Letter to HaydĂ©e SantamarĂa
- Albert Camus and the Morality of Limits
- Bataille or the Redemption of Evil
- Sartre, FierabrĂĄs 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 DeyĂĄ
- Botero: A Sumptuous Abundance
- Szyszlo in the Labyrinth
- Degenerate Art
- A Fleeting Impression of VĂĄclav Havel
- Swiss Passion
- Letter to Salman Rushdie
- The âPeopleâ and the âDecent Peopleâ: 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