Sabers and utopias : visions of Latin America /

Sabers and utopias : visions of Latin America /

Throughout his career, the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa has grappled with the concept of Latin America on a global stage. Examining liberal claims and searching for cohesion, he continuously weighs the reality of the continent against the image it projects, and considers the political dange...

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Main Author: Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- (Author)
Other Authors: Kushner, Anna (Translator), Granés, Carlos (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2018]
Edition:First American edition.
Subjects:
Latin American literature > History and criticism.
Arts, Latin American.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Caribbean & Latin American.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.
Latin America > Politics and government > 1948-1980.
Latin America > Politics and government > 1980-

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505 0 |g Foreword:  |t The instinctive struggle for freedom /  |r by Carlos Granés --  |t The fall of Somoza --  |t Toward a totalitarian Peru --  |t The perfect dictatorship --  |t Death in Haiti --  |t Fidel and his "melancholy whores" --  |t Funeral rites for a tyrant --  |t Warning to dictators --  |t The leader's honor --  |t Letter to Fidel Castro --  |t The logic of terror --  |t Good terrorists --  |t Down with the law of gravity! --  |t The apogee of horror --  |t No more FARC --  |t For the history of infamy --  |t Death of the Caudillo --  |t Elephant and culture --  |t Why? How? --  |t The "hispanics" --  |t Nostalgia for the sea --  |t Repugnant laudatory fare --  |t The other state --  |t The defeat of fascism --  |t A call for harmony --  |t Empty the shelves! --  |t Between namesakes --  |t Liberalism across two millennia --  |t Dreams and reality in Latin America --  |t Hunting gays --  |t Marijuana comes out of the closet --  |t Julian Assange on the balcony --  |t Lost identity --  |t The students --  |t José Donoso; or, A life made into literature --  |t Cabrera infante --  |t Welcome to Fernando de Szyszlo --  |t Friendship and books --  |t Fifty years of the Latin American boom. 
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