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Mario Vargas Llosa
In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that have shaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over the past fifty years.
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A vivid exploration of power and violence, The Feast of the Goat is one of Vargas Llosa’s most acclaimed novels.
A novel about love and betrayal, a younger generation that can no longer tell the difference between reality and desire, and the destructive effects of media fantasies.
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A newly repackaged edition of a classic Vargas Llosa novel.
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Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changed the development of Latin America: that those in power encouraged the spread of Soviet communism in…
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This was the first full-scale critical treatment of Vargas Llosa published in the English language.
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When a high-profile businessman is blackmailed by a notorious magazine editor, his comfortable life is threatened by the salacious expose. Then the editor is found murdered, and the two couples…
En el pasado, la cultura fue una especie de conciencia que impedia dar la espalda a la realidad. Ahora, actua como mecanismo de distraccion y entretenimiento.
La cultura, en el…
Raymond Leslie Williams
In this first comprehensive intellectual biography of the prolific Nobel laureate, a preeminent scholar of Hispanic studies examines Mario Vargas Llosa’s multifaceted literary career, spanning the polemics of the Latin…
A landmark collection of essays on the Nobel laureate’s conception of Latin America, past, present, and future
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Sara Castro-Klaren
The book includes sections on the helix narrative, stories within stories, double and multiple time and space, cinema and narrative technique, fragmentation and coherence, fiction and history, the hero and…
Sabine Koellmann
This Companion offers an overview and assessment of Mario Vargas Llosa’s large body of work, tracing his development as a writer and intellectual in his essays, critical studies, journalism, and…
Creando una admirable tension entre lo comico y lo tragico, el Premio Nobel de Literatura y Principe de Asturias de las Letras, Mario Vargas Llosa, libera en esta novela una…
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This Companion’s chapters chart the development of Vargas Llosa’s writings from his rise to prominence in the early 1960s to the Nobel Prize for Literature (2010). His narrative fiction is…
Analyses Vargas Llosa’s career as a writer and as an important cultural and political figure in Latin America and beyond.
Sabine Kollmann,Sabine Keollmann
Originally presented as the author’s thesis (doctoral)–Universiteat Zeurich, 1995.
Madalena Defort
El libro es un profundo estudio de la actividad politica de Mario Vargas Llosa. El intelectual queda plasmado como un gran defensor de los valores liberales. Su fascinacion por la…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Challenge, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
This collection of essays associated with Mario Vargas Llosa’s visits to the City College of New York offers readers an opportunity to learn about his body of work through his…
A Study Guide for Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Time of the Hero, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Literature of Developing Nations for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character…
Braulio Munoz
This text offers an appraisal of Mario Vargas Llosa’s literary and political production. It engages the debate concerning his role in Latin America, the merits and shortcomings of modernist and…
Luis Cabareda Fermin
Treinta anos ha...!La lujuria estalla! -!Don Mario, le ruego me perdone, debo ir al bano...estoy humeda! -exclamo Isabel perturbada y sudorosa, levantandose del sofa y colocando el microfono en la…
‘The most approachable and exhilarating Latin American writer of our times.’ Robert McCrum, Observer In the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday…
This book provides a thoroughly edited text of Antonio Machado’s Campos de Castilla, one of twentieth-century Spain’s best-loved volumes of poetry.
Includes: Entrevista a Mario Vargas Llosa.
Chinese edition of La ciudad y los perros [The time of the hero] by Mario Vargas Llosa, the renowned Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, and essayist. This story portrays how four…
La llamada de la tribu es una autobiografia intelectual de Mario Vargas Llosa.
La diferencia con libros como El pez en el agua es que aqui el protagonismo no lo…
Originally published: Lima, Peru: Alfaguara, 2008.
In nineteenth-century Brazil, just after the establishment of the Republic, an apocalyptic movement, led by a mysterious prophet, establishes another republic of prostitutes, bandits, and beggars, who reject every aspect…
Le 7 avril 1803 naît à Paris la militante féministe et ouvriériste Flora Tristan.
Un siècle plus tard, le 8 mai 1903, son petit-fils, Paul Gauguin, meurt seul et presque…
In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. This masterful work, sharply translated by Grossman, tackles a controversial man whose story has long…
In the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt years of Alberto Fujimori’s presidency, two wealthy couples of Lima’s high society become embroiled in a disturbing vortex of erotic adventures…
Una novela del Premio Nobel de Literatura y Principe de Asturias de las Letras Mario Vargas Llosa, en la que dos hombres puestos a prueba por la vida descubren el…
Premio Nobel de Literatura –Title page.
LA ULTIMA NOVELA DE MARIO VARGAS LLOSA, PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA
Una historia de conspiraciones politicas e intereses encontrados durante la Guerra Fria. Una mentira que paso por verdad y…
Mario Vargas Llosa crea en?Quien mato a Palomino Molero? una intensa novela policial donde el suspense y la tension recorren toda la historia. En un escenario dominado por la corrupcion…
Una clase magistral sobre la actualidad y el oficio de novelista por el Premio Nobel de Literatura Mario Vargas Llosa.
Universidad de Princeton, Nueva Jersey, 2015. Durante un semestre, Mario…
Novela ejemplar en la historia del boom latinoamericano, La casa verde es una experiencia ineludible para todo aquel que quiera conocer en profundidad la obra narrativa de Mario Vargas Llosa…
Uno de los escritores mas extraordinarios del siglo XX, Jorge Luis Borges, en la mirada de Mario Vargas Llosa, Premio Nobel de Literatura
La perfeccion absoluta no parece de este…
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This comic novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, which merges reality with fantasy, is about the world of radio soap operas and the pitfalls of forbidden passion. Sophisticated, divorced Aunt Julia…
A revolutionary army is taking on the failing government and the US Marines, and the cities have become vast garbage-strewn slums. In The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, Mario Vargas…