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100	1		_aVargas Llosa, Mario _d(1936-)
245	1	0	_aMaking waves _c/ Mario Vargas Llosa / edited and translated by John King
260			_aNew York _b: Farrar, Straus and Giroux _c, c1997.
300			_axxi, 338 p. _c; 24 cm.
500			_a"First published in the United Kingdom in 1996 by Faber & Faber Limited, London"--T.p. verso.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThe 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.
650		4	_aEssays
700	0		_aKing, John _d, 1950-
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