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  Touchstones: Essays on Literature, Art, and Politics (Paperback) By (author) Mario Vargas Llosa, Edited by John King, Translated by John King

  

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  Short Description for TouchstonesOne of Latin Am erica'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...
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  • Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
  • Published: 01 February 2011
  • Format: Paperback 354 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Essays | Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780374278373 ISBN 10: 0374278377
  • Sales rank: 658,372

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• One of Latin Am erica'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.