Making waves
Vargas Llosa, Mario (1936-)
Making waves / Mario Vargas Llosa / edited and translated by John King - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , c1997. - xxi, 338 p. ; 24 cm.
"First published in the United Kingdom in 1996 by Faber & Faber Limited, London"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The celebrated Peruvian novelist (and onetime candidate for president of his Andean homeland) employs his consummate articulateness to coax the reader into seeing things his way in these essays about authors, locations, and cultural and political movements. "Faulkner in Laberinto" draws interesting parallels between Mississippi and the Amazonian region of Peru. In "The Story of a Massacre," a sad story is documented, that of the murder in Peru of a group of journalists mistakenly thought to be terrorists. "When Madrid Was a Village" nostalgically charts Vargas Llosa's disappointment in Madrid and its university when he went there to study for his doctorate in 1958--but concludes with a fond remembrance of the Madrilenos' hospitality. Other essays, including "My Son the Rastafarian" and "The Penis or Life: The Bobbitt Affair," discuss further personal and social situations for which the author has obvious concern.
9780374200381
Essays
LAS 864 VAR
Making waves / Mario Vargas Llosa / edited and translated by John King - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , c1997. - xxi, 338 p. ; 24 cm.
"First published in the United Kingdom in 1996 by Faber & Faber Limited, London"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The celebrated Peruvian novelist (and onetime candidate for president of his Andean homeland) employs his consummate articulateness to coax the reader into seeing things his way in these essays about authors, locations, and cultural and political movements. "Faulkner in Laberinto" draws interesting parallels between Mississippi and the Amazonian region of Peru. In "The Story of a Massacre," a sad story is documented, that of the murder in Peru of a group of journalists mistakenly thought to be terrorists. "When Madrid Was a Village" nostalgically charts Vargas Llosa's disappointment in Madrid and its university when he went there to study for his doctorate in 1958--but concludes with a fond remembrance of the Madrilenos' hospitality. Other essays, including "My Son the Rastafarian" and "The Penis or Life: The Bobbitt Affair," discuss further personal and social situations for which the author has obvious concern.
9780374200381
Essays
LAS 864 VAR
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