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Bezig met laden... Politically, Fashionably, and Aerodynamically Incorrect: The First Outland Collection (1992)door Berkeley Breathed
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Not as consistently funny as "Bloom County", Outlnd had its moment and of course retained the key character from Bloom, Opus the Penguin. My favorite. ( ) After "Bloom County", Berkely Breathed introduced this Sunday strip, populated with some of the characters from his early strip. The premise is that Ronald-Ann, a young black girl of the inner city, sleeps more peaceably when in her dreams she journeys to this "outlandish" (heh-heh) place. Eventually, the locale morphs into a more mundane world, but this strip lacks the charm and continuity of "Bloom County". Still pretty good, though. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"This book describes the demise of Peruvian democracy as a metaphor for the challenges facing the cause of freedom in Latin America in the 1990s. Vargas Llosa describes how and why Peru's democracy collapsed in April 1992, after 12 years of precarious existence. As he explains, in Peru and elsewhere in the region, the destitute have always been skeptical about the virtues of democratic systems. Vargas Llosa sees the forces hostile to democracy in Peru as paralleled elsewhere on the continent, as democracy's enemies work energetically to undermine democracy in the name of order." "Vargas Llosa argues that the failure of democracy in Peru is a result of historic vices and deficiencies in institutions constructed during the long years of dictatorship in Latin American nations. In the short intervals of democratic government that interrupted those years, elected leaders never dared to attempt reform of state institutions or state/society relationships. The resulting absence of political, economic, or cultural freedoms in all aspects of Latin American society is the root cause of the region's failure to build a democratic tradition." "The collapse of democracy in Peru stunned its neighbors in Latin America because they saw its crisis reflected in their own institutions. Despite the bleak present Vargas Llosa describes, he is not pessimistic. He is concerned that reforms have been too timid, more rhetorical than real. He warns that just as democraticization in the 1980s was greeted with euphoria, events of the 1990s are replacing that euphoria with the fear that change is elusive. Time may be running out." "The book's vivid, accessible writing will invite interest in The Madness of Things Peruvian from anyone interested in Latin American affairs. Mr. Vargas Llosa's unique perspective as an insider in Peruvian politics provides those who have political or economic interests in the region with unusual insight into developments there."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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