The storyteller / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated by Helen Lane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-2025.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Hablador. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Storytelling--Fiction.

Storytelling.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

245 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1990.

Summary:

"At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer stares with fascination at the photograph of a tribal storyteller deep in the jungles of the Amazon. He is overcome with the eerie sense that he knows this man ... that the storyteller is not an Indian at all, but his old school friend, Saúl Zuratas. As recollections of Zuratas - a Jew, a perpetual outsider - flow through his mind, the writer begins to imagine Zuratas' transformation from a modern man to a central member, the voice and the chronicler, of the primitive unacculturated Machiguenga tribe. Weaving the mysteries of identity, storytelling, and truth, Vargas Llosa has created a spellbinding tale of one man's journey from the modern world to the world of our origins, abandoning one in order to find the meaning in both."--Back cover.

Notes:

"First published in the United States of America by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989"--Title page verso.

Translation of: El hablador.

ISBN:

0140143491

9780140143492

OCLC:

21409434

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