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The Cambridge companion to Mario Vargas Llosa /
"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...
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Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Cambridge companions to literature
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Table of Contents:
- 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 .