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MAKING WAVES: ESSAYS by Vargas Llosa, Mario (Translated by John King) - 1997
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New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 338 pages. Retrospective collection of literary and political essays. One of the finest collections of its kind ever published. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. The DJ Cover features an original portrait of Vargas Llosa by Fernando Botero. Presents Mario Vargas Llosa's "Making Waves" in a felicitous English translation. Selected by the author himself. While he believes being provocative for its own sake is a cheap shot, many of these essays "made waves", that is, generated enormous controversy when they first appeared, and made the author more aware of the feelings behind even the most clinically dispassionate argument. Although much better-known as a novelist, Vargas Llosa's range as an essayist is breathtaking: Literature, especially the great literary figures of the 20th century such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, politics, Europe, Latin America, the United States, and the relations among them all. He writes about his subjects with a fresh voice and keen insight. Mario Vargas Llosa is the writer/intellectual/philosopher par excellence among the Latin-American geniuses of the so-called Boom: He refuses to be categorized, labeled, and reduced by ideology, whether it is Fascist conservatism, political correctness, or Leftist academicism, what he has condemned as "authoritarianism of the Left and the Right". "Making Waves" won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism in 1997, besting its American contenders. It was followed, with sustained brilliance, by "The Language of Passion" (2003) and "Touchstones" (2007) . A self-described "European writer of Peruvian origin", Vargas Llosa's only equals as an essayist among Latin-American writers are Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz. Together with their forefather, Alejo Carpentier, the trio demonstrates the cosmopolitanism of the "Boom", a Cultural Revolution that brought Latin America out of the darkness of backwardness and provincialism (Vargas Llosa is especially scathing about his Peruvian predecessors) into the Paradise that Jorge Luis Borges dreamt about. An absolute "must-have" title for Mario Vargas Llosa collectors. This title is a great collection. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Among "Boom" writers, Mario Vargas Llosa has been grossly under-valued for the longest time. The collectible value of his books will not only keep but keep going up. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the Cervantes Prize, awarded to the greatest living writers in Spanish by the Spanish Government, in 1994. Winner of the Jerusalem Prize in 1995. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARIO VARGAS LLOSA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374200386.
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New York. 1997. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket With A Small Bump At The Bottom Front Spine. 0374200386. Translated from the Spanish by John King. 338 pages. hardcover. Front jacket art: Mario Vargas Llosa, by Botero. Jacket design by Michael Ian Kaye . keywords: Literature Translated Peru Latin America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Mario Vargas Llosa, renowned as a novelist, is one of our most brilliant and provocative public intellectuals as well. In Making Waves, the first collection of his essays, he explores, with characteristic brio and elegance, his long-standing preoccupations-literature and politics, Europe and the Americas, and the relations among them all. We follow Vargas Llosa from his native Peru to Madrid and then to Paris, the setting of essays on his great precursors Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Albert Camus, as well as a comic account of his visit to the tomb of Rin Tin Tin and an affecting memoir of his time in the city as an aspiring writer…
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