Temptation of the Word: The Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa
by Efrain Kristal
Vanderbilt University Press, 1998
Cloth: 978-0-8265-1301-4 | Paper: 978-0-8265-1344-1 | eISBN: 978-0-8265-9098-5 (PDF)
Library of Congress Classification PQ8498.32.A65Z697 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification 863
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Choice Outstanding Academic Book 1998
Temptation of the Word offers an ambitious and careful reading of the creative process--the origin of themes and the development of literary techniques--that Mario Vargas Llosa has brought to each of his novels, published through 1996. To understand the novelist's intellectual environment, Efrain Kristal analyzes the entire corpus of Vargas Llosa's writings, his literary influences in several languages, his intellectual biography, and his political activism, all in the light of the evolving political turbulence of his times and his own changing concept of literature.
Temptation of the Word offers an ambitious and careful reading of the creative process--the origin of themes and the development of literary techniques--that Mario Vargas Llosa has brought to each of his novels, published through 1996. To understand the novelist's intellectual environment, Efrain Kristal analyzes the entire corpus of Vargas Llosa's writings, his literary influences in several languages, his intellectual biography, and his political activism, all in the light of the evolving political turbulence of his times and his own changing concept of literature.
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