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Cambridge Companions to Literature: The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa
Efrain Kristal
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Paperback. Analyses Vargas Llosa's career as a writer and as an important cultural and political figure in Latin America and beyond. Editor(s): King, John; Kristal, Efrain. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSG; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 406. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. 256 pages, illustrations. Editor(s): King, John; Kristal, Efrain. Analyses Vargas Llosa's career as a writer and as an important cultural and political figure in Latin America and beyond. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: DSG; DSK. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 12. Weight: 406.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Cambridge Companions to Literature
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521682855
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V9780521682855
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About Efrain Kristal
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 for Cambridge Companions to Literature: The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa
'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 This excellent, up-to-date companion offers not only a general index and a ... Read more