Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa

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Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa

Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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Collection: Cambridge Companions to Literature

Language: English

Published by: Cambridge University Press

Published on: 15th December 2011

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 1 Mb

ISBN: 9781107486508


About the Author

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.

Book Overview

This Companion''s chapters chart the development of Vargas Llosa''s writings from his rise to prominence in the early 1960s 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 re-invented himself as a writer.

Focus and Themes

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.

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