The Cambridge companion to Mario Vargas Llosa /
The Cambridge companion to Mario Vargas Llosa /
edited by Efraín Kristal and John King.
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- xvii, 233 p. ; 23 cm.
- Cambridge companions to literature .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction /rEfrain Kristal and John King -- Reality and rebellion : an overview of Mario Vargas Llosa's literary themes / The early novels : The time of the hero and The green house / The total novel and the novella : Conversation in the cathedral and The cubs / Humour and irony. Captain Pantoja and the special service and Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter / The historical novel : The war of the end of the world / Innocence and corruption : Who killed Palomino Molero? and The storyteller / The political novels : The real life of Alejandro Mayta and Death in the Andes / The erotic novels : In praise of the stepmother and The notebooks of Don Rigoberto / The dictator novel : The feast of the goat / The essays / The memoir : A fish in the water / The plays / Film and the novels / An interview / Alonso Cueto -- Gerald Martin -- Efrain Kristal -- Michael Wood -- Juan E. de Castro and Nicholas Birns -- Fiona Mackintosh -- Deborah Cohn -- Roy C. Boland -- Clive Griffin -- From utopia to reconciliation : The way to paradise, The bad girl, and The dream of the celt / Efrain Kristal -- John King -- Kelly Austin -- Evelyn Fishburn -- Carolina Sitnisky -- Efrain Kristal and John King with Mario Vargas Llosa .
"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"--
9780521864244 9780521682855 (pbk.)
2011021718
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- --Criticism and interpretation.
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- --Crítica e interpretación.
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- --Political activity.
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- --Actividad política.
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- --Influence.
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- --Influencia.
PQ 8498.32 / C178 2012
863/.64
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction /rEfrain Kristal and John King -- Reality and rebellion : an overview of Mario Vargas Llosa's literary themes / The early novels : The time of the hero and The green house / The total novel and the novella : Conversation in the cathedral and The cubs / Humour and irony. Captain Pantoja and the special service and Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter / The historical novel : The war of the end of the world / Innocence and corruption : Who killed Palomino Molero? and The storyteller / The political novels : The real life of Alejandro Mayta and Death in the Andes / The erotic novels : In praise of the stepmother and The notebooks of Don Rigoberto / The dictator novel : The feast of the goat / The essays / The memoir : A fish in the water / The plays / Film and the novels / An interview / Alonso Cueto -- Gerald Martin -- Efrain Kristal -- Michael Wood -- Juan E. de Castro and Nicholas Birns -- Fiona Mackintosh -- Deborah Cohn -- Roy C. Boland -- Clive Griffin -- From utopia to reconciliation : The way to paradise, The bad girl, and The dream of the celt / Efrain Kristal -- John King -- Kelly Austin -- Evelyn Fishburn -- Carolina Sitnisky -- Efrain Kristal and John King with Mario Vargas Llosa .
"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"--
9780521864244 9780521682855 (pbk.)
2011021718
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- --Criticism and interpretation.
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- --Crítica e interpretación.
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- --Political activity.
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- --Actividad política.
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- --Influence.
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- --Influencia.
PQ 8498.32 / C178 2012
863/.64