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Showing posts with label Mario Vargas Llosa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mario Vargas Llosa. Show all posts
Monday, April 14, 2025

Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-2025)

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It's a fool's errand to try to be succinct about Vargas Llosa, who died on Sunday. Does one talk about the "giant" of lite...
Monday, September 03, 2018

V is for ...

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A case of a ghastly linguistic muddle involving, in one sentence, no fewer than five languages: Euclides da Cunha, who was a fanatical re...
Saturday, March 10, 2018

Conversations

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Mario Vargas Llosa, on the composition of his 1969 novel Conversación en La Catedral, which is set in Peru during the dictatorship of Manue...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Gregory Rabassa (1922-2016)

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The translator Gregory Rabassa has died, according to a notice from the Associated Press. Rabassa was a professor for many years at Quee...
Saturday, December 08, 2012

Brothel, with Orchestra

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I borrowed a copy of this brief study of the Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti because I was curious to see what Mario Vargas Llosa wou...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Of empires and dreams

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At first glance, the life of Roger Casement, the British diplomat turned Irish nationalist who was executed for treason in 1916, might not s...
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