Author : Sabine Köllmann
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 31,2 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1855662698
This Companion offers an overview and assessment of Mario Vargas Llosa's large body of work, tracing his development as a writer and intellectual in his essays, critical studies, journalism, and theatrical works, but above all inhis novels.
Author : Efrain Kristal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,18 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521864240
Analyses Vargas Llosa's career as a writer and as an important cultural and political figure in Latin America and beyond.
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File Size : 17,55 MB
Release : 2018
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This Companion's chapters chart the development of Vargas Llosa's writings from his rise to prominence in the early 1960s to the Nobel Prize for Literature (2010). His narrative fiction is the main focus, but his role as a cultural and political figure is also explored in this engaging, informative book.
Author : Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 18,82 MB
Release : 2011-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429921927
Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers. Drawing on the stories and novels of writers from around the globe-Borges, Bierce, Céline, Cortázar, Faulkner, Kafka, Robbe-Grillet-he lays bare the inner workings of fiction, all the while urging young novelists not to lose touch with the elemental urge to create. Conversational, eloquent, and effortlessly erudite, this little book is destined to be read and re-read by young writers, old writers, would-be writers, and all those with a stake in the world of letters.
Author : Efraín Kristal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,84 MB
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521825334
The diverse countries of Latin America have produced a lively and ever evolving tradition of novels, many of which are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel Garcìa Màrquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. The essays collected here offer several entryways into the understanding and appreciation of the Latin American novel in Spanish-speaking America and Brazil. The volume conveys a real sense of the heterogeneity of Latin American literature, highlighting regions whose cultural and geopolitical particularities are often overlooked. Indispensable to students of Latin American or Hispanic studies and those interested in comparative literature and the development of the novel as genre, the Companion features a comprehensive bibliography and chronology and concludes with an essay about the success of Latin American novels in translation.
Author : Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 2011-03-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1429922354
The Perpetual Orgy is Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant analysis of Gustav Flaubert's masterpiece Madame Bovary. In this remarkable book, "we not only enjoy a dazzling explication, but experience a master discoursing at the top of his form on the craft of the novel" (Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe). It is a tribute to The Perpetual Orgy that it sends the reader back to Flaubert's work with renewed interest.
Author : Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher : Picador
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 2011-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429921455
Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals. The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirteen years older, with whom he begins a secret affair. The second is a manic radio scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho, whose racy, vituperative soap operas are holding the city's listeners in thrall. Pedro chooses young Marito to be his confidant as he slowly goes insane. Interweaving the story of Marito's life with the ever-more-fevered tales of Pedro Camacho, Vargas Llosa's novel is hilarious, mischievous, and masterful, a classic named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review.
Author : Gale, Cengage
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 50,14 MB
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0028665414
"A Study Guide for Mario Vargas Llosa's ""The War of the End of the World"", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs."
Author : Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 10,87 MB
Release : 2011-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429921587
Plunge into the heart of the remote Peruvian Andes in Mario Vargas Llosa's stunning novel, Death in the Andes. This narrative weaves an intricate tapestry of stark political realities, age-old Andean mysticism, and a chilling mystery that leaves no stone unturned. The book promises a riveting blend of genres, serving as both a political allegory and a gripping detective novel. It shimmers with an undercurrent of magical realism, embroiling readers in the nooks and corners of an isolated community caught in the web of violent guerrilla warfare. Immerse yourself in the ancient Dionysian rituals of Greece mirrored in unsettling, cannibalistic sacrifices, unveiling profound connections to Peru's Indian heritage and pre-Hispanic mysticism. The narrative's panoramic view of Peruvian society illuminates its violent present, deeply entrenched in its rich yet haunting past. A breathtaking exploration of South American literature from Nobel Prize-winning author Vargas Llosa, Death in the Andes is a resounding tribute to Latin American literature and an unforgettable journey into the pulsating heart of Peru.
Author : Timothy Unwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 18,68 MB
Release : 2004-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521894593
This volume brings together a series of essays by acknowledged experts on Flaubert. It offers a coherent overview of the writer's work and critical legacy, and provides insights into the very latest scholarly thinking. While a central place is given to Flaubert s most widely read texts, attention is also paid to key areas of the corpus that have tended to be overlooked. Close textual analyses are accompanied by discussion of broader theoretical issues, and by a consideration of Flaubert s place in the wider traditions that he both inherited and influenced. These essays provide not only a robust critical framework for readers of Flaubert, but also a fuller understanding of why he continues to exert such a powerful influence on literature and literary studies today. A concluding essay by the prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa examines Flaubert s legacy from the point of view of the modern novelist.
