The language of passion
Subtitle: selected commentary
By: Mario Vargas Llosa ; [translated by Natasha Wimmer]
Contributors: Wimmer, Natasha
Edition: 1st Picador ed.
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780312422547
Subjects: Spanish literature -- 20th century.
Work titles: Lenguaje de la pasión
Notes: Includes index.

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
Table of contents: title: The lady from Somerset; title: Shadows of friends; title: The morality of cynics; title: Postmodernism and frivolity; title: Tragicomedy of a Jew; title: God will provide; title: Aid for the first world; title: Italy is not Bolivia; title: The death of the great writer; title: Trench town rock; title: The prince of doom; title: Under the skies of Jerusalem; title: French identity; title: The sign of the cross; title: Ceausescu's house; title: The joys of Necrophilia; title: The old man with the bunions; title: A bourgeois paradise; title: Cassandra's prophecies; title: The immigrants; title: The devil's advocate; title: A defense of sects; title: A walk through Hebron; title: Seven years, seven days; title: Nudes in a classical garden; title: Epitaph for a library; title: The hour of the charlatans; title: Elephant dung; title: A maiden; title: Mandela's island; title: The other side of paradise; title: Painting to survive; title: The language of passion; title: The city of nests; title: The unborn child; title: New inquisitions; title: The weaker sex; title: Predators; title: The permanent erection; title: The lost battle of Monsieur Monet; title: A death so sweet; title: Fataumata's feet; title: The suicide of a nation; title: The Alexandrian; title: The life and trials Elián; title: Pernicious futility.