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The Cambridge companion to Mario Vargas Llosa / / edited by Efraín Kristal and John King [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 |
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1-107-48650-5 |
1-139-05064-8 |
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1 online resource (xvii, 233 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Cambridge companions to literature |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Chronology -- Introduction / Efrain Kristal and John King -- Reality, rebellion, and the paradox of power. An overview of Mario Vargas Llosa's literary themes / Alonso Cueto -- The early novels. The time of the hero and The green house / Gerald Martin -- The total novel and the novella. Conversation in the cathedral and the cubs / Efrain Kristal -- Humour and irony. Captain Pantoja and the special service and Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter / Michael Wood -- The historical novel. The war of the end of the world / Juan E. de Castro and Nicholas Birns -- Innocence and corruption. Who killed Palomino Molero? and The storyteller / Fiona Mackintosh -- The political novels. The real life of Alejandro Mayta and Death in the Andes / Deborah Cohn -- The erotic novels. In praise of the stepmother and The notebooks of Don Rigoberto / Roy C. Boland -- The dictator novel The feast of the goat / Clive Griffin -- From utopia to reconciliation. The way to paradise, The bad girl, and 'The dream of the celt' / Efrain Kristal -- The essays / John King -- The memoir / Kelly Austin -- The plays / Evelyn Fishburn -- Film and the novels / Carolina Sitnisky -- The interview / Efrain Kristal and John King with Mario Vargas Llosa . |
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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 |
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