Mario Vargas Llosa is considered one of the great Latin American writers of our time. Understanding Mario Vargas Llosa is a very readable companion guide to Llosa's works that traces the development of the novelist's craft and thought while probing and analyzing the entire body of writings to date of this celebrated author of The War of the End of the World. His popularity as a writer has been augmented recently as he has attracted international attention for his political involvement in Peru and his presidential campaign in the 1990 national elections. 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 society, the failed hero and the writing of fiction, autobiography and fiction, and the writer as hero.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
ISBN-10
0872498484
ISBN-13
9780872498488
eBay Product ID (ePID)
450230
Product Key Features
Author
Sara Castro-Klaren
Publication Name
Understanding Mario Vargas Llosa
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
1992
Series
Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
165 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
9.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq84898.32.A65z644
Copyright Date
1990
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Caribbean & Latin American
Lccn
89-070449
Dewey Decimal
863
Dewey Edition
20
Genre
Literary Criticism
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