Touchstones: Essays on Literature, Art, and Politics

Mario Vargas Llosa,Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
February 1 2011
EAN: 9780374278373
ISBN: 0374278377
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Synopsis:

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

One of Latin America's most garlanded novelists--and the recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature--Mario Vargas Llosa is also an acute and wide-ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. Touchstones collects Vargas Llosa's brilliant readings of seminal twentieth-century novels, from Heart of Darkness to The Tin Drum; incisive essays on political and social thinkers; and contemporary pieces on 9/11 and the immediate aftermath of the war in Iraq.

Fantastically intelligent, inspired, and surprising, Touchstones is a landmark collection of essays from one of the world's leading writers and intellectuals.