Captain Pantoja and the Special Service

Captain Pantoja and the Special Service

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2011-03-04

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1429922141

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This delightful farce opens as the prim and proper Captain Pantoja learns he is to be sent to Peru's Amazon frontier on a secret mission for the army—to provide females for the amorous recruits. Side-splitting complications arise as world of Captain Pantoja's remarkable achievements start to spread.


Captain Pantoja and the Special Service

Captain Pantoja and the Special Service

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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This delightful farce opens as the prim and proper Captain Pantoja learns he is to be sent to Peru's Amazon frontier on a secret mission for the army--to provide females for the amorous recruits. Side-splitting complications arise as world of Captain Pantoja's remarkable achievements start to spread.


Captain Pantoja and the Special Service

Captain Pantoja and the Special Service

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 1990-10-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780374522360

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This delightful farce opens as the prim and proper Captain Pantoja learns he is to be sent to Peru's Amazon frontier on a secret mission for the army—to provide females for the amorous recruits. Side-splitting complications arise as world of Captain Pantoja's remarkable achievements start to spread.


Temptation of the Word

Temptation of the Word

Author: Efraín Kristal

Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780826513441

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Originally published in hardcover in 1998.


The Political Ecology of the State

The Political Ecology of the State

Author: Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-03-26

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1317936620

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The contemporary state is not only the main force behind environmental change, but the reactions to environmental problems have played a crucial role in the modernisation of the state apparatus, especially because of its mediatory role. The Political Ecology of the State is the first book to critically assess the philosophical basis of environmental statehood and regulation, addressing the emergence and evolution of environmental regulation from the early twentieth century to the more recent phase of ecological modernisation and the neoliberalisation of nature. The state is understood as the result of permanent socionatural interactions and multiple forms of contestation, from a critical politico-ecological approach. This book examines the tension between pro- and anti-commons tendencies that have permeated the organisation and failures of the environmental responses put forward by the state. It provides a reinterpretation of the achievements and failures of mainstream environmental policies and regulation, and offers a review of the main philosophical influences behind different periods of environmental statehood and regulation. It sets out an agenda for going beyond conventional state regulation and grassroots dealings with the state, and as such redefines the environmental apparatus of the state.


Talking Books with Mario Vargas Llosa

Talking Books with Mario Vargas Llosa

Author: Raquel Chang-Rodríguez

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2020-08

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1496220838

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The essays included in Talking Books with Mario Vargas Llosa celebrate Mario Vargas Llosa’s visits to the City College of New York, the creation of the Cátedra Vargas Llosa in his honor, and the interests of the Peruvian author in reading and books. This volume contains previously unpublished material by Vargas Llosa himself, as well as by novelists and literary critics associated with the Cátedra. This collection offers readers an opportunity to learn about Vargas Llosa’s body of work through multiple perspectives: his own and those of eminent fiction writers and important literary critics. The book offers significant analysis and rich conversation that bring to life many of the Nobel Laureate’s characters and provide insights into his writing process and imagination. As the last surviving member of the original group of writers of the Latin American Boom—which included Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Julio Cortázar—Vargas Llosa endures as a literary icon because his fiction has remained fresh and innovative. His prolific works span many different themes and subgenres. A combination of literary analyses and anecdotal contributions in this volume reveal the little-known human and intellectual dimensions of Vargas Llosa the writer and Vargas Llosa the man.


Looking for History

Looking for History

Author: Alma Guillermoprieto

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 030742667X

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From the esteemed New Yorker correspondent comes an incisive volume of essays and reportage that vividly illuminates Latin America’s recent history. Only Alma Guillermoprieto, the most highly regarded writer on the region, could unravel the complex threads of Colombia’s cocaine wars or assess the combination of despotism, charm, and political jiu-jitsu that has kept Fidel Castro in power for more than 40 years. And no one else can write with such acumen and sympathy about statesmen and campesinos, leftist revolutionaries and right-wing militias, and political figures from Evita Peron to Mexico’s irrepressible president, Vicente Fox. Whether she is following the historic papal visit to Havana or staying awake for a pre-dawn interview with an insomniac Subcomandante Marcos, Guillermoprieto displays both the passion and knowledge of an insider and the perspective of a seasoned analyst. Looking for History is journalism in the finest traditions of Joan Didion, V. S. Naipaul, and Ryszard Kapucinski: observant, empathetic, and beautifully written.


A Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa

A Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa

Author: Sabine Köllmann

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1855662698

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This Companion offers an overview and assessment of Mario Vargas Llosa's large body of work, tracing his development as a writer and intellectual in his essays, critical studies, journalism, and theatrical works, but above all inhis novels.


Handbook of Latin American Literature (Routledge Revivals)

Handbook of Latin American Literature (Routledge Revivals)

Author: David William Foster

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-11

Total Pages: 822

ISBN-13: 1317518268

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First published in 1987 (this second edition in 1992), the Handbook of Latin American Literature offers readers the opportunity to explore this literary history in the English Language and constitutes an ideological approach to Latin American Literature. It provides both concise information concerning particular authors, works, and literary traditions of Latin America as well as comprehensive material about the various national literatures of the area. This book will therefore be of interest to Hispanic scholars, as well as more general readers and non-Hispanists.