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Informationen zum Autor Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Peru in 1936. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." He also won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor. His many works of fiction and nonfiction include The Feast of the Goat, In Praise of the Stepmother, and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, all published by FSG. He died in Lima at age 89 in 2025. Klappentext WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Internationally acclaimed novelist Mario Vargas Llosa has contributed a biweekly column to Spain's major newspaper, El País, since 1977. In this collection of columns from the 1990s, Vargas Llosa weighs in on the burning questions of the last decade, including the travails of Latin American democracy, the role of religion in civic life, and the future of globalization. But Vargas Llosa's influence is hardly limited to politics. In some of the liveliest critical writing of his career, he makes a pilgrimage to Bob Marley's shrine in Jamaica, celebrates the sexual abandon of Carnaval in Rio, and examines the legacies of Vermeer, Bertolt Brecht, Frida Kahlo, and Octavio Paz, among others. Inhaltsverzeichnis Author's Note Touchstone The Lady from Somerset Shadows of Friends The Morality of Cynics Postmodernism and Frivolity Tragicomedy of a Jew God Will Provide Aid for the First World Italy Is Not Bolivia The Death of the Great Writer Trench Town Rock The Prince of Doom Under the Skies of Jerusalem French Identity The Sign of the Cross Ceausescu's House The Joys of Necrophilia The Old Man with the Bunions A Bourgeios Paradise Cassandra's Prophecies The Immigrants The Devil's Advocate A Defense of Sects A Walk through Hebron Seven Years, Seven Days Nudes in a Classical Garden Epitaph for a Library The Hour of the Charlatans Elephant Dung A Maiden Mandela's Island The Other Side of Paradise Painting to Survive The Language of Passion The City of Nests The Unborn Child New Inquisitions The Weaker Sex Predators The Permanent Erection The Lost Battle of Monsieur Monet A Death So Sweet Fataumata's Feet The Suicide of a Nation The Alexandrian The Life and Trials of Elián Pernicious Futility Index ...
