Author : Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 13,63 MB
Release : 2001-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This is an edition of an important early work by a writer who has since become a leading Latin-American author and a figure in Peruvian politics. It provides a picture of the hedonistic and selfish lifestyle of the young men and women who will one day become Peru's ruling elite.
Author : Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 36,78 MB
Release : 2011-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 142992232X
The Cubs and Other Stories is Mario Vargas Llosa's only volume of short fiction available in English. Vargas Llosa's domain is the Peru of male youth and machismo, where life's dramas play themselves out on the soccer field, the dance floor, and on street corners. The title story, "The Cubs," tells the story of the carefree boyhood of P.P. Cuellar and his friends, and of P.P.'s bizarre accident and tragic coming of age. Innovative in style and technique, it is a work of both physical and psychic loss. In a candid and perceptive forward to this collection of early writing, Vargas llosa provides background to the volume and a unique glimpse into the mind of the Nobel Prize-winning artist.
Author : Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 17,10 MB
Release : 2011-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429921935
At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer happens upon a photograph of a tribal storyteller deep in the jungles of the Amazon. He is overcome with the eerie sense that he knows this man...that the storyteller is not an Indian at all but an old school friend, Saul Zuratas. As recollections of Zuratas flow through his mind, the writer begins to imagine Zuratas's transformation from a modern to a central member of the unacculturated Machiguenga tribe. Weaving the mysteries of identity, storytelling, and truth, Vargas Llosa has created a spellbinding tale of one man's journey from the modern world to our origins, abandoning one in order to find meaning in both.
Author : Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 45,35 MB
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1429922605
Spanning thirty years of writing, Making Waves traces the development of 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 like Joyce, Faulkner, and Sartre; considerations on the dog cemetery where Rin Tin Tin is buried, Lorena Bobbitt's knife, and the failures of the English public-school system.
Author : Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 32,1 MB
Release : 2011-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429921552
A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 From Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa comes The Bad Girl, a "...splendid, suspenseful, and irresistible [novel]. . . A contemporary love story that explores the mores of the urban 1960s--and 70s and 80s."--The New York Times Book Review Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as "Lily" in Lima in 1950, when she flits into his life one summer and disappears again without explanation. He loves her still when she reappears as a revolutionary in 1960s Paris, then later as Mrs. Richardson, the wife of a wealthy Englishman, and again as the mistress of a sinister Japanese businessman in Tokyo. However poorly she treats him, he is doomed to worship her. Charting Ricardo's expatriate life through his romances with this shape-shifting woman, Vargas Llosa has created a beguiling, epic romance about the life-altering power of obsession.
Author : Hervé This
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0231141718
International celebrity and co-founder of molecular gastronomy Herve This answers such fundamental questions as what causes vegetables to change color when cooked and how to keep a souffle from falling. Sharing the empirical principles chefs have valued for generations, he shows how to adapt recipes to available ingredients and how to modify proposed methods to the utensils at hand. His revelations make difficult recipes easier and allow for even more creativity and experimentation in the kitchen.
Author : Efrain Kristal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 19,94 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521864240
Analyses Vargas Llosa's career as a writer and as an important cultural and political figure in Latin America and beyond.
Author : Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 2004-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780312422547
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.
Author : Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 35,15 MB
Release : 2011-03-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1429922354
The Perpetual Orgy is Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant analysis of Gustav Flaubert's masterpiece Madame Bovary. In this remarkable book, "we not only enjoy a dazzling explication, but experience a master discoursing at the top of his form on the craft of the novel" (Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe). It is a tribute to The Perpetual Orgy that it sends the reader back to Flaubert's work with renewed interest.
Author : Antonio Buero Vallejo
Publisher : Aris and Phillips Hispanic Cla
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 29,75 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Drama
ISBN : 085668838X
This play describes a teaching centre for young people who are blind, where a false unity is maintained by a mixture of fear, coercion and diversion and where education is seen as to play a part in the regime's ideological apparatus and to encourage the acceptance of pleasant and reassuring myths.
