Talking Books with Mario Vargas Llosa
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Talking Books with Mario Vargas Llosa

A Retrospective

  1. 258 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Talking Books with Mario Vargas Llosa

A Retrospective

About this book

The essays included in Talking Books with Mario Vargas Llosa celebrate Mario Vargas Llosa's visits to the City College of New York, the creation of the Cátedra Vargas Llosa in his honor, and the interests of the Peruvian author in reading and books. This volume contains previously unpublished material by Vargas Llosa himself, as well as by novelists and literary critics associated with the Cátedra. This collection offers readers an opportunity to learn about Vargas Llosa's body of work through multiple perspectives: his own and those of eminent fiction writers and important literary critics. The book offers significant analysis and rich conversation that bring to life many of the Nobel Laureate's characters and provide insights into his writing process and imagination. As the last surviving member of the original group of writers of the Latin American Boom—which included Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Julio Cortázar—Vargas Llosa endures as a literary icon because his fiction has remained fresh and innovative. His prolific works span many different themes and subgenres. A combination of literary analyses and anecdotal contributions in this volume reveal the little-known human and intellectual dimensions of Vargas Llosa the writer and Vargas Llosa the man.

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Yes, you can access Talking Books with Mario Vargas Llosa by Raquel Chang-Rodríguez,Carlos Riobó in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Latin American & Caribbean Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Frontispiece
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. In Conversation with the 2010 Nobel Laureate
  11. 1. Genesis and Evolution of Captain Pantoja and the Special Services
  12. 2. The Return of the Monsters
  13. 3. From Miguel de Cervantes to César Moro
  14. Life and Literature
  15. 4. Discreet and Injudicious Heroes in the Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa
  16. 5. A Life Worthy of a Novel
  17. 6. Vargas Llosa and Cervantes: Modern Knights
  18. History, Authority, and Ideology
  19. 7. A Poetics of Freedom
  20. 8. The Eye of the Beholder
  21. 9. Historical Fact/Historical Fiction in The Feast of the Goat
  22. Other Tales
  23. 10. The Storyteller: Narrating Latin America from Europe
  24. 11. Rubén Darío through Mario Vargas Llosa’s Looking Glass
  25. 12. Mario Vargas Llosa at the New York Public Library
  26. Contributors
  27. Index
  28. About Raquel Chang-Rodríguez
  29. About Carlos Riobó
  30. Series List