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28) El hablador
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269 pages ; 19 cm.
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Español
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With his characteristic technical genius, Mario Vargas Llosa counters two worlds that appear at odds with each other - our modern societies and the people that live in total harmony with the natural environment. Steering the reader in a vertiginous journey through the collective mind of the Machiguenga Indians, Vargas Llosa expounds, once again, on one of his obsessions: the role fiction plays in the life of humanity.
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xxiii, 275 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Throughout his career, the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa has grappled with the concept of Latin America on a global stage. Examining liberal claims and searching for cohesion, he continuously weighs the reality of the continent against the image it projects, and considers the political dangers and possibilities that face this diverse set of countries. Now this illuminating and versatile collection assembles these never-before-translated criticisms...
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454 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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"La aventura que narra esta novela empieza en el Congo en 1903 y termina en una cárcel de Londres, una mañana de 1916. Aquí se cuenta la peripecia vital de un hombre de leyenda: el irlandés Roger Casement. Héroe y villano, traidor y libertario, moral e inmoral, su figura múltiple se apaga y renace tras su muerte. Casement fue uno de los primeros europeos en denunciar los horrores del colonialismo"--P. [4] of cover.
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Punto de lectura volume 3/5
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569 pages ; 18 cm.
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Español
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Novel about the last year in the dictatorship of Leonidas Trujillo in the Dominican Republic.
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Colección Argumentos volume 471
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92 pages ; 20 cm.
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Español
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?Como puede una novela cambiar el mundo? ?Todavia conservan los libros el poder de cambiar la realidad y a los hombres? Dos maestros de la literatura mundial contemporanea intentan responder a esta dificilisima pregunta revelando los secretos de su "taller de escritura". Invitando a Claudio Magris y a Mario Vargas Llosa a confrontar sus respectivas ideas sobre la literatura como "experiencia total", Renato Poma, director del Instituto Italiano de...
37) Los Toros
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approximately 123 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Punto de lectura. Narrativa volume 4/15
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387 pages ; 19 cm.
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Español
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Set in Peru during a war between U.S. Marines and a Cuban-Bolivian revolutionary army, a fictional memoir characterizes the evolution of a revolutionary, in a psychological portrait of the fanaticism and destruction of revolution.