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Mario Vargas Llosa
A classic Vargas Llosa novel, based on real events in Brazilian history.
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A newly repackaged edition of a classic Vargas Llosa novel.
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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A vivid exploration of power and violence, The Feast of the Goat is one of Vargas Llosa’s most acclaimed novels.
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Edited by Juan E De Castro, this volume includes essays by some of the best-known Vargas Llosa scholars. The articles not only provide an introduction to the Nobel Prize winner’s…
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The intellectual autobiography of Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
From its origins, the liberal doctrine has represented the most advanced forms of democratic culture, and…
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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…
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…
Mario Vargas Llosa, Ruben Gallo
A series of conversations held at Princeton University between the Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa and Ruben Gallo.
Princeton University, 2015. For one semester, Mario Vargas Llosa taught a course…
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…
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…
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This was the first full-scale critical treatment of Vargas Llosa published in the English language.
Sabine Kollmann,Sabine Keollmann
Originally presented as the author’s thesis (doctoral)–Universiteat Zeurich, 1995.
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…
R A Kerr
A collection of ten essays that examine the techniques of characterization and the interrelationship of character with other narrative components in Mario Vargas Llosa’s fiction from Los jefes to El…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Relato de un tiempo de reivindicacion violenta de los derechos y deseos de America Latina, Historia de Mayta se desarrolla en 1958, durante una intentona revolucionaria trotskista. Vargas Llosa dibuja…
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…
Includes: Entrevista a Mario Vargas Llosa.
Originally published: Lima, Peru: Alfaguara, 2008.
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.
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…
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…
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…
Cada novela es un deicidio secreto, un asesinato simbolico de la realidad.
Publicado a comienzos de la decada de los setenta y desaparecido de las librerias desde hace muchos anos…
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…
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.
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Examines the character of Emma Bovary and traces the gestation and birth of the novel, Flaubert’s method, his mania for documentation, and the novel’s literary sources.
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.
In Praise of the Stepmother is the story of Don Rigoberto, his second wife, Lucrecia, and his son, Alfonso. Little by little, the harmony of his characters is darkened by…
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…
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…
Originally published as La La ciudad y los perros, 1962 by Editorial Seix Barral, S.A., Barcelona. –T.p. verso.
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…
