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The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Efrain Kristal
Edited by John King
SeriesCambridge Companions to Literature
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 155
Category/GenreLiterary studies - plays and playwrights
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
ISBN/Barcode 9780521864244
ClassificationsDewey:863.64
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 15 December 2011
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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 the early 1960s to the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. The volume traces the development of his literary trajectory and the ways in which he has re-invented himself as a writer. His vast output of narrative fiction is the main focus, but the connections between his concerns as a creative writer and his rich career as a cultural and political figure are also teased out in this engaging, informative book.

Author Biography

Efrain Kristal is Professor and Chair in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. John King is Professor of Comparative American Studies at the University of Warwick.

Reviews

'The scope and depth of the essays, only hinted at here, make this book an indispensable source for future studies of Vargas Llosa as a fiction writer and as one of the most important intellectuals of our time.' Malva E. Filer, Literature and Arts of the Americas