The Language of Passion: Selected Commentary.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. First American edition of this selection of commentary from Vargas Llosa's "Touchstone" column. Octavo, original half cloth. Translated by Natasha Wimmer. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Con recordo afection para Roberto Lima, de tu viejo amigo M V/L 10 de abril de 208." The recipient, Cuban-born American award-winning poet, literary critic, and playwright Robert Lima was a professor emeritus of Spanish and Comparative Literatures at Pennsylvania State University, as well as fellow emeritus of the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies. His passion for archaeology and the connected mythologies of various civilizations motivated him to explore the world and inspired poetic visions throughout his career. He devoted a chapter on his interactions with Llosa in his 2015 work Some People. Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Kathleen DiGrado. Since 1977. Mario Vargas Llosa has contributed a biweekly column to Spain's major newspaper, El Pas. Dubbed "Touchstone" and read in syndication by Spanish speaking readers around the globe, the column is renowned - in some circles, notorious - for skewering the excesses of the Latin American left and championing classic liberalism and free-market democracy. In this collection of columns, Vargas Llosa weighs in on the burning questions of the last decade, including the travails of Latin American democracy, the role of religion in civic life, and the future of globalization.