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Temptation of the Word: The Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa

Efraín Kristal

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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.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Hardcover

Release: January 01, 1998

ISBN 13: 9780826513014

Temptation of the Word: The Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa

Efraín Kristal

0/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Hardcover

Release: January 01, 1998

ISBN 13: 9780826513014

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