Making Waves - Essays

Informationen zum Autor Mario Vargas Llosa; Edited and translated by John King Klappentext WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Spanning thirty years of writing, Making Waves traces the development of the Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa's thinking on politics and culture, and shows the breadth of his interests and passions. Featured here are astute meditations on the Cuban Revolution, Latin American independence, and the terrorism of Peru's Shining Path; brilliant engagements with towering figures of literature such as Joyce, Faulkner, and Sartre; and observations about the dog cemetery where Rin Tin Tin is buried, Lorena Bobbitt's knife, and the failures of the English public-school system.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Mario Vargas Llosa, Mario Vargas Llosa
• Mitarbeit: John King (Herausgeber), John King (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 18.01.2011
• EAN: 9780374532963
• ISBN: 978-0-374-53296-3
• Seiten: 368
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft