The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa

Herausgeber: King, John; Kristal, Efraín

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This Companion's chapters chart the development of Vargas Llosa's writings from his rise to prominence in the early 1960s to the Nobel Prize for Literature (2010). His narrative fiction is the main focus, but his role as a cultural and political figure is also explored in this engaging, informative book.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9780521682855
• ISBN-10: 0521682851
• Artikelnr.: 33766012

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology
Introduction Efraín Kristal and John King
1. Reality, rebellion, and the paradox of power: an overview of Mario Vargas Llosa's literary themes Alonso Cueto
2. The early novels Gerald Martin
3. The total novel and the novella Efraín Kristal
4. Humour and irony Michael Wood
5. The historical novel Juan E. de Castro and Nicholas Birns
6. Innocence and corruption Fiona Mackintosh
7. The political novels Deborah Cohn
8. The erotic novels Roy C. Boland
9. The dictator novel Clive Griffin
10. From Utopia to reconciliation Efraín Kristal
11. The essays John King
12. The memoir Kelly Austin
13. The plays Evelyn Fishburn
14. Film and the novels Carolina Sitnisky
15. The interview Efraín Kristal and John King with Mario Vargas Llosa
Further reading
Index.