A companion to Mario Vargas Llosa /
This companion to the work of Peruvian Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa traces his fictional and non-fictional writing throughout the different phases of a career spanning more than fifty years. His lifelong dedication to literature goes hand in hand with his commitment as a public intellectual, a...
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Suffolk :
Boydell & Brewer,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. A lifetime of reading and writing. Two sides of a vocation : writer and intellectual
- Truth and lies : literary theory and criticism
- Journalism and essays : from art to politics
- Part 2. The narrative work. Prelude : Los jefes (1959)
- Experimenting with form and language : narratives of the 1960s and 1970s
- Towards the total novel : La guerra del fin del mundo (1981)
- Experimenting with genres : novels of the 1980s and after
- Interlude : the demons of literature and politics (El pez en el agua, 1993)
- The return of the grand design : La fiesta del chivo (2000), El paraíso en la otra esquina (2003) and El sueño del celta (2010)
- Part 3. Works for the theatre. Life's dreams : the storyteller on stage.
