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In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that haveshaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over the past fifty years.The Nobel Laureate maps out the liberal thinkers who helped him develop anew body of ideas after the great ideological traumas of his disenchantmentwith the Cuban Revolution and departure from the ideas of Jean-Paul Sartre,the author who most inspired Vargas Llosa in his youth. Writers like Adam Smith, Friedrich A. Hayek, Karl Popper and Isaiah Berlinhelped the author navigate through these uneasy years of intellectual formation.They showed him another school of thought that placed the individualbefore the tribe, nation, class or party, and defended freedom of expression asa fundamental value for the exercise of democracy. The Call of the Tribe documentsVargas Llosa's engagement with their work and charts the evolutionof his personal and philosophical ideology.Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the world's greatest living novelists, but, asClive James wrote in Cultural Amnesia, his 'true strength' is 'undoubtedlyin the essay'.

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Author:   Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher:   Faber & Faber
Imprint:   Faber & Faber
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.398kg
ISBN:  

9780571352180

ISBN 10:   0571352189
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   12 January 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature'for his cartography of structures of power and histrenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, anddefeat.' He has also won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, theSpanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor.His many works include The Feast of the Goat, In Praise ofthe Stepmother, and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. John King (translator) is the co-editor of The CambridgeCompanion to Mario Vargas Llosa, and he has edited andtranslated several volumes of Vargas Llosa's essays, includingMaking Waves and Touchstones.

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