Making waves. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mario Vargas Llosa ; edited and translated by John King.
• Other Names: Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-; King, John, 1950-
• Contents: The country of a thousand faces -- When Madrid was a village -- Chronicle of the Cuban Revolution -- In a Normandy village, remembering Paul Escobar -- Toby, rest in peace -- P'tit Pierre -- Hemingway : the shared feast -- A visit to Bunuel -- Luis Bunuel : a festival of excellent bad films -- Simone de Beauvoir : Les belles images -- Sebastian Salazar Bondy and the vocation of the writer in Peru -- Literature is fire -- Literature and exile -- Socialism and the tanks -- A visit to Karl Marx -- Joyce's Dubliners -- The other Oscar -- Doris Lessing : The golden notebook -- Letter to Haydee Santamaria -- Albert Camus and the morality of limits -- Bataille or the redemption of evil -- Sartre, Fierabras and Utopia -- The mandarin -- Isaiah Berlin : a hero of our time -- Faulker in Laberinto -- William Faulkner : the sanctuary of evil -- John Dos Passos : Manhattan transfer. (Cont'd) The world cup, Spain 1982 -- The story of a massacre -- Freedom for the free? -- Nicaragua at the crossroads -- My son the Rastafarian -- The trumpet of Deya -- Botero : a sumptuous abundance -- Szyszlo in the labyrinth -- Degenerate art -- A fleeting impression of Vaclav Havel -- Swiss passion -- Letter to Salman Rushdie -- The 'People' and the 'Decent people' : on contemporary Peru -- The death of Che -- Nations, fictions -- Saul Bellow and Chinese whispers -- Visual contact -- The penis or life : the Bobbitt affair -- The truth of lies.
• Publisher Details: London : Faber & Faber
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 868; Peruvian literature -- 20th century -- Translations into English; Peruvian literature; Political and social views; Translations; Political and social views
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780571303250; 0571303250
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.