Touchstones
Subtitle: Essays in literature, art and politics
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Translated from: spa
ISBN-13: 9780571214990
Description: Selected, translated and edited by John King.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Literature; title: Seed of dreams; title: A twenty-first-century novel; title: The heart of darkness; title: Death in Venice; title: Mrs Dalloway Nadja; title: La Condition humaine; title: Tropic of cancer; title: Seven Gothic tales; title: L'Etranger; title: The old man and the sea; title: Lolita; title: The tin drum; title: Deep rivers; title: Neruda at a hundred; title: How I lost my fear of flying; title: Literature and life; title: Art; title: A dream factory; title: George Grosz: a sad and ferocious man; title: Two friends; title: Traces of Gauguin; title: The men-women of the pacific; title: The painter in the brothel; title: When Paris was a Fiesta; title: Botero at the bullfight; title: Culture and politics; title: Nationalism and utopia; title: The man who knew too much; title: The thief in the empty house; title: Culture and the new international order; title: Responses to 9/11; title: Novelist in New York; title: Iraq diary; title: A story about rats; title: The captain in his labyrinth; title: The Pinochet affair; title: Chilean yawns; title: The odyssey of Flora Tristan