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 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: Efrain Kristal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 12/15/2011
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780521682855

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2012

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