Making Waves: Essays 1962-93: Essays, 1962-93

But winding through this engaging collection is an exploration of something closer to the Peruvian novelist's and one-time presidential contender's core: In the United States, novelists aren't thought of in terms of their contribution to the national good; For Llosa, as for many Latin American writers, these acts most public politics and private the writing of literature are inextricably linked.

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If he writes better in his country, he must stay there; if he writes better in exile, he must leave. The eminent Peruvian novelist e. He has also produced a substantial body of journalistic writings, and in this omnibus collection covering three decades, selected by his translator King, he addresses topics as diverse as the work of Surrealist filmmaker Bru? While he can stall in laudatory generalities when writing about Isaiah Berlin or John Dos Passos, for example, Vargas Llosa writes most effectively when discussing authors who have profoundly influenced him: Everywhere his conviction in the value of the writer's metier?

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Showing of 5 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. I bought this item on a recommendation from a website. The stories, other than the sample I read online, were not that great. The book has been edited by John King, who also translated these essays into English.

Vargas writes about politics, literature, popular culture, the writer's vocation, and other topics. His moods vary greatly throughout the book: The book is filled with fascinating insights and memories. It is fascinating, for example, to read how Vargas Llosa's first novel was burned and denounced.

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He frequently attacks Cuban leader Fidel Castro. One of the best selections, "The Story of a Massacre," tells of the tragic slaying of a group of journalists; this piece takes us into the worlds of the Shining Path guerrillas and the Iquichano Indians. Another excellent selection is "My Son the Rastafarian," about his son's conversion to the Rastafarian religion while staying at an English school.

Many of Vargas Llosa's essays explore the lives and work of other writers: And there are a few weird surprises, like his essay on Lorena Bobbitt, the woman who cut off her husband's penis. In an essay on Hemingway, Mario Vargas Llosa writes, "The condition of the writer is strange and paradoxical.

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I highly recommend "Making Waves" to all interested in contemporary literature and politics. Mario Vargas LLosa is Peru's most well- known novelist and a writer of international reputation. Editor and translator John King brings together a rich sample of his non- fictional work. Much of the writing has to do with Politics and Literature, but there are also personal explorations as in his long essay on the period in which his younger son became a Rastafarian.

There are also essays on film Bunel on art Botero Many of the essays have to do with writers Sartre, Faulkner, Camus , Dos Passos, who Llosa feels in some way close to. He also in this work writes an illuminating essay on Isiah Berlin in which he shows how Berlin makes Ideas the main character of his essays, and how in a brilliant technical fashion Berlin by seeing these ideas from all points-of- view manages nonetheless to convey his own liberal political perspective.

In the political realm there is a scathing essay on the myth of Che Guevera, an essay which faults him for the brand of revolutionary socialist violence which went nowhere- but nonetheless shows admiration for Che's having lived by the principles he preached. LLosa writes of himself as one consumed by reading and writing, one who is on fire for Literature. And in his peripatetic and rich career in Madrid, Paris, London, and Lima LLosa has created a body of work of which this volume in so clearly enunciating his literary and political credo, must have an honorable place.

I gained a new respect for Vargas Llosa after reading this book. A true joy to read. The topics vary, and cover everything from the "bad" films of Luis Bunuel to the fading legacy of Che Guevara. He frequently attacks Cuban leader Fidel Castro. One of the best selections, "The Story of a Massacre," tells of the tragic slaying of a group of journalists; this piece takes us into the worlds of the Shining Path guerrillas and the Iquichano Indians.

Another excellent selection is "My Son the Rastafarian," about his son's conversion to the Rastafarian religion while staying at an English school. Many of Vargas Llosa's essays explore the lives and work of other writers: And there are a few weird surprises, like his essay on Lorena Bobbitt, the woman who cut off her husband's penis. In an essay on Hemingway, Mario Vargas Llosa writes, "The condition of the writer is strange and paradoxical. I highly recommend "Making Waves" to all interested in contemporary literature and politics. Mario Vargas LLosa is Peru's most well- known novelist and a writer of international reputation.

Editor and translator John King brings together a rich sample of his non- fictional work. Much of the writing has to do with Politics and Literature, but there are also personal explorations as in his long essay on the period in which his younger son became a Rastafarian.

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There are also essays on film Bunel on art Botero Many of the essays have to do with writers Sartre, Faulkner, Camus , Dos Passos, who Llosa feels in some way close to. He also in this work writes an illuminating essay on Isiah Berlin in which he shows how Berlin makes Ideas the main character of his essays, and how in a brilliant technical fashion Berlin by seeing these ideas from all points-of- view manages nonetheless to convey his own liberal political perspective. In the political realm there is a scathing essay on the myth of Che Guevera, an essay which faults him for the brand of revolutionary socialist violence which went nowhere- but nonetheless shows admiration for Che's having lived by the principles he preached.

LLosa writes of himself as one consumed by reading and writing, one who is on fire for Literature. And in his peripatetic and rich career in Madrid, Paris, London, and Lima LLosa has created a body of work of which this volume in so clearly enunciating his literary and political credo, must have an honorable place.

I gained a new respect for Vargas Llosa after reading this book. A true joy to read. The topics vary, and cover everything from the "bad" films of Luis Bunuel to the fading legacy of Che Guevara. In fact, there seems to be an even split here between literary and political themes. I loved, for example, reading a Latin American perspective on the works of David Mamet. I also enjoyed "Nicaragua at a Crossroads.

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No writer of magic realism could ever imagine a stranger form of urban chaos than the one depicted in this essay. However, he deserves his place among them and may perhaps be better. It's a collection of essays spanning many decades, and often they are merely his take on a particular social, political, or literary trend.

The book makes for enjoyable reading in bits and pieces. A highly intelligent work!

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