Touchstones · Essays on Literature, Art, and Politics
- Authors
- Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Tags
- writing
- ISBN
- 9781429967471
- Date
- 2007-12-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.38 MB
- Lang
- en
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.