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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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword: The instinctive struggle for freedom / by Carlos Granés
- The fall of Somoza
- Toward a totalitarian Peru
- The perfect dictatorship
- Death in Haiti
- Fidel and his "melancholy whores"
- Funeral rites for a tyrant
- Warning to dictators
- The leader's honor
- Letter to Fidel Castro
- The logic of terror
- Good terrorists
- Down with the law of gravity!
- The apogee of horror
- No more FARC
- For the history of infamy
- Death of the Caudillo
- Elephant and culture
- Why? How?
- The "hispanics"
- Nostalgia for the sea
- Repugnant laudatory fare
- The other state
- The defeat of fascism
- A call for harmony
- Empty the shelves!
- Between namesakes
- Liberalism across two millennia
- Dreams and reality in Latin America
- Hunting gays
- Marijuana comes out of the closet
- Julian Assange on the balcony
- Lost identity
- The students
- José Donoso; or, A life made into literature
- Cabrera infante
- Welcome to Fernando de Szyszlo
- Friendship and books
- Fifty years of the Latin American boom.