Includes bibliographical references and index (p. 331-338). The country of a thousand faces -- When Madrid was a village --Chronicle of the Cuban revolution -- In a Normandy village, remembering Pa'ul Escobar -- Toby, rest in peace -- P'tit Pierre -- Hemingway: the shared feast -- A visit to Bunuel -- Luis Bunuel: a festival of excellent bad films -- Simone de Beauvoir: les belles images -- Sebasti'an Salazar Bondy and the vocation of the writer in Peru -- Literature is fire --Literature and exile -- Socialism and the tanks -- A visit to Karl Marx -- Joyce's dubliners -- The other Oscar -- Doris Lessing: the golden notebook -- Letter to Hayd'ee Santamar'ia -- Albert Camus and the morality of limits -- Bataille or the redemption of evil -- Sartre, Fierabr'as and Utopia -- The mandarin -- Isiah Berlin: a hero of our time -- Faulkner in Laberinto - - William Faulkner: the sanctuary of evil -- John Dos Passos: Manhattan transfer -- The world cup, Spain 1982 -- The story of a massacre -- Freedom for the free? -- Nicaragua at the crossroads -- My son the Rastafarian -- The trumpet of Dey'a -- Botero: a sumptuous abundance --Szyszlo in the labyrinth -- Degenerate art -- A fleeting impression of V'aclav Havel -- Swiss passion -- Letter to Salman Rushdie -- The 'people' and 'decent people.': On comtemporary Peru -- The death of che -- Nations, fictions -- Saul Bellow and chinese whispers -- Visual contact -- The penis or life: the Bobbitt affair -- The truth of lies.