Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. King, John.

Description

1. xxxii, 353 p.; 24 cm.

Contents

1. Literature: Seed of dreams -- A twenty-first century novel -- Heart of darkness : the roots of humankind -- Death in Venice : the call to the abyss -- Mrs Dalloway : the intense and sumptuous life of banality -- Nadja : Nadja as fiction -- La condition humaine : the hero, the buffoon and history -- Tropic of Cancer : the happy nihilist -- Seven gothic tales : the tales of the baroness -- L'Étranger : the outsider must die -- The old man and the sea : redemption through courage -- Lolita : Lolita thirty years on -- The tin drum : the drumroll -- Deep rivers : fantasy and magic -- Neruda a hundred -- How I lost my fear of flying -- Literature and life.
2. Art: A dream factory -- Grosz : a sad and ferocious man -- Two friends -- Traces of Gaugin -- The men-women of the Pacific -- The painter in the brothel -- When Paris was a fiesta -- Botero at the bullfight.
3. Culture and politics: Nationalism and utopia -- The man who knew too much -- The thief in the empty house -- Culture and the new international order -- Responses to 9/11 -- Novelist in New York -- Iraq diary -- A story about rats -- The captain in his labyrinth -- The Pinochet affair -- Chilean yawns -- The odyssey of Flora Tristán.

Call number

1. JFE 07-7126

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

1. Translated from the Spanish.

Author

1. Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-

Title

1. Touchstones : essays in literature, art and politics / Mario Vargas Llosa ; selected, translated and edited by John King.

Imprint

1. London : Faber and Faber, 2007.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Language

1. Translated from the Spanish.

Added author

1. King, John.

ISBN

1. 0571214991 (hbk.)
2. 9780571214990 (hbk.)

Research call number

1. JFE 07-7126