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Making Waves

Mario Vargas Llosa

Spanning thirty years of writing, Making Waves traces the development of Mario Vargas Llosa's thinking on politics and culture, and shows the breadth of his interests and passions. Featured here are astute meditations on the Cuban Revolution, Latin American independence, and the terrorism of Peru's Shining Path; brilliant engagements with towering figures of literature like Joyce, Faulkner, and Sartre; considerations on the dog cemetery where Rin Tin Tin is buried, Lorena Bobbitt's knife, and the failures of the English public-school system.

Arts & CriticismArts & Criticism · medium confidenceArts & Criticism81 signalsLlm Classifier: Arts & Criticism -> Arts & CriticismKeyword Classifier: American History -> American HistoryKeyword Classifier: Arts & Criticism -> Arts & CriticismLiterature & WritersArt, Music & PerformanceIntellectual History & Ideas

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismMajor1997WinnerSecondary source
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