The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa
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Part of Cambridge Companions to Literature
- Editors:
- Efrain Kristal, University of California, Los Angeles
- John King, University of Warwick
- Date Published: December 2011
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521682855
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One of the major novelists in world literature over the last five decades, Mario Vargas Llosa (b. 1936) is also one of Latin America's most engaging public intellectuals, a critic of art and culture, and a playwright of distinction. This Companion's chapters chart the development of Vargas Llosa's writings from his rise to prominence in the early 1960s to the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. The volume traces the development of his literary trajectory and the ways in which he has re-invented himself as a writer. His vast output of narrative fiction is the main focus, but the connections between his concerns as a creative writer and his rich career as a cultural and political figure are also teased out in this engaging, informative book.
Read more- An up-to-date treatment of the Nobel Prize-winning author's life, work and career
- Includes a previously unpublished interview with Vargas Llosa
- Covers his writings across all genres in which he is active: fiction, criticism and drama
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'The scope and depth of the essays, only hinted at here, make this book an indispensable source for future studies of Vargas Llosa as a fiction writer and as one of the most important intellectuals of our time.' Malva E. Filer, Literature and Arts of the Americas
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- Date Published: December 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521682855
- length: 256 pages
- dimensions: 226 x 150 x 12 mm
- weight: 0.4kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Chronology
Introduction Efraín Kristal and John King
1. Reality, rebellion, and the paradox of power: an overview of Mario Vargas Llosa's literary themes Alonso Cueto
2. The early novels Gerald Martin
3. The total novel and the novella Efraín Kristal
4. Humour and irony Michael Wood
5. The historical novel Juan E. de Castro and Nicholas Birns
6. Innocence and corruption Fiona Mackintosh
7. The political novels Deborah Cohn
8. The erotic novels Roy C. Boland
9. The dictator novel Clive Griffin
10. From Utopia to reconciliation Efraín Kristal
11. The essays John King
12. The memoir Kelly Austin
13. The plays Evelyn Fishburn
14. Film and the novels Carolina Sitnisky
15. The interview Efraín Kristal and John King with Mario Vargas Llosa
Further reading
Index.
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