Touchstones: Essays In Literature, Art And Politics

Notes

1 Efraín Kristal, Temptation of the Word. The Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa, Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, 1998, pp. 185–86.

2 A Fish in the Water. A Memoir, Faber and Faber, London, 1994, p. 209.

3 La verdad de las mentiras, Alfaguara, Madrid, 2002, pp. 13–14.

4 ’Günter Grass en la picota’, El País, 27 August 2006.

5 La utopía arcaica: José María Arguedas y las ficciones del indigenismo, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 1996, p. 17.

6 The Temptation of the Impossible, Princeton University Press, 2007, pp. 176–77.

7 ‘Karl Popper al día’, El País 27 April 1989 and 5 June 1989.

8 A Fish in the Water, p. 210.

9 ’King’s Cross’, El País, 24 July 2005.

10 Israel/Palestina: Paz o Guerra Santa, Aguilar, Madrid, 2006, pp. 107–108.

11 Ibid.

12 ’La segunda oportunidad’, El País, 18 June 2006.

13 Martín de Riquer, Para leer a Cervantes, Barcelona, 2003.

14 All quotations are taken from Miguel de Cervantes, The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de La Mancha, translated by John Rutherford, Penguin, London, 2000.

15 ’An Image of Africa’, Massachusetts Review, 18:4 (Winter 1977), pp. 782–94.

16 F. R. Leavis, The Great Tradition, Stewart, New York, 1950, p. 179.

17 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1983, p. 112.

18 See Heart of Darkness, Icon Critical Guides, edited by Nicholas Tredell, Icon Books, Cambridge, 1998, p. 50.

19 Thomas Mann, Death in Venice together with Two Other Stories: Tristan, Tonio Kroger. Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1955, p. 76.

20 Death in Venice, p. 71.

21 On surrealism and literature, see Jacqueline Chénieux-Gendron, Le Surréalisme et le roman (1922–1950), Paris, 1983.

22 André Breton, Nadja, Gallimard, Paris, 1963, p. 22.

23 Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales, Putnam, London, 1934, p. 202.

24 Ibid, p. 202.

25 This foreword to the American edition of The Outsider is reprinted as an afterword to the UK Penguin edition of the novel. See Albert Camus, The Outsider, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1983, pp. 118–19.

26 Hemingway en Cuba, prologue by Gabriel García Márquez, Editorial Letras Cubanas, Havana, 1984.

27 See Jeffrey Meyers (ed.), Hemingway: The Critical Heritage, Routledge and Kegan Paul, Boston, 1982.

28 Deep Rivers, University of Texas Press, Austria, p. 227.

29 Poem written by Grosz in 1918. See Uwe Schneede, Georg Grosz. The Artist in His Society, New York, 1985, p. 47.

30 M. Kay Flavell, George Grosz. A Biography, New Haven and London, p. 300.

31 Schneede, p. 31.

32 Marty Grosz, in George Grosz, Gli anni di Berlino, Mazzotta, Milan, 1985, p. 16.

33 Published in Das Kunstblatt, vol. 8, no. 2, Verlag Gustav Kiepenheur, Berlin, 1924.

34 Reproduced in Hans Hess, Georg Grosz, London and New Haven, 1985, p. 31.

35 Andrew De Shong, The Theatrical Designs of George Grosz, Michigan, 1982.

36 Flavell, p. 128.

37 As can be seen in his collection Mit Pinsel und Schere: 7 Materialisationen, Berlin, Malik, 1922.

38 Quoted by Uwe M. Schneede, George Grosz: His Life and Work, Universe Books, New York, 1979, p. 108.

39 The successful Berlin marchand and gallery owner.

40 Fernando Botero, La corrida, oleos, acuarelas, dibujos, exhibition catalogue, Hospital de los Venerables Sacerdotes, Seville, 1992, p. 19.

41 John Murray, London, 1991.

42 A Life: Isaiah Berlin, Chatto & Windus, London, 1998.

43 Ignatieff, p. 234.

44 Ignatieff, p. 125.

45 Ignatieff, p. 167.

46 Ignatieff, p. 233.

47 Ignatieff, p. 211.

48 Le Tour de France II, Maspero, Paris 1980, p. 192.