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The Language of Passion - Selected Commentary - cover

The Language of Passion - Selected Commentary

Mario Vargas Llosa

Translator Natasha Wimmer

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Summary

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.
Available since: 09/04/2024.
Print length: 306 pages.

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