Touchstones: Essays on Literature, Art, and Politics

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

One of Latin America's most garlanded novelists--and the recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature--Mario Vargas Llosa is also an acute and wide-ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. Touchstones collects Vargas Llosa's brilliant readings of seminal twentieth-century novels, from Heart of Darkness to The Tin Drum; incisive essays on political and social thinkers; and contemporary pieces on 9/11 and the immediate aftermath of the war in Iraq.

Fantastically intelligent, inspired, and surprising, Touchstones is a landmark collection of essays from one of the world's leading writers and intellectuals.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 02/01/2011
ISBN: 9780374278373
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.10d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 01/30/2011 pg. 24