The Cambridge companion to Mario Vargas Llosa / edited by Efraâin Kristal and John King.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kristal, Efraín, 1959-

King, John, 1950-

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature

Cambridge companions to authors

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-2025--Criticism and interpretation.

Vargas Llosa, Mario.

Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-2025--Political activity.

Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-2025--Influence.

Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-2025.

Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-.

Political participation.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xvii, 233 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Summary:

"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 sixties 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 reinvented 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chronology

Introduction / Efrain Kristal and John King

Reality, rebellion, and the paradox of power. An overview of Mario Vargas Llosa's literary themes / Alonso Cueto

The early novels. The time of the hero and The green house / Gerald Martin

The total novel and the novella. Conversation in the cathedral and the cubs / Efrain Kristal

Humour and irony. Captain Pantoja and the special service and Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter / Michael Wood

The historical novel. The war of the end of the world / Juan E. de Castro and Nicholas Birns

Innocence and corruption. Who killed Palomino Molero? and The storyteller / Fiona Mackintosh

The political novels. The real life of Alejandro Mayta and Death in the Andes / Deborah Cohn

The erotic novels. In praise of the stepmother and The notebooks of Don Rigoberto / Roy C. Boland

The dictator novel The feast of the goat / Clive Griffin

From utopia to reconciliation. The way to paradise, The bad girl, and 'The dream of the celt' / Efrain Kristal

The essays / John King

The memoir / Kelly Austin

The plays / Evelyn Fishburn

Film and the novels / Carolina Sitnisky

The interview / Efrain Kristal and John King with Mario Vargas Llosa .

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521864244

0521864240

9780521682855

0521682851

OCLC:

729064953

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