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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
Produkt The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa (Kristal Efrain)(Paperback) má EAN kód 9780521682855.
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
Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the master storytellers of our time. -- Chicago Tribune Book WorldFrom one of the world's most critically acclaimed authors comes a haunting novel about power, corruption and the complex search for identityConversation in The Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during
LA NUEVA NOVELA DE MARIO VARGAS LLOSA, PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURAUna historia de conspiraciones políticas e intereses encontrados durante la Guerra Fría. Una mentira que pasó por verdad y cambió el devenir de América Latina.«?Era la historia esa fantástica tergiversación de la
Román z roku 1969 představuje vrchol Vargas Llosova úsilí o 'totální román'. Rámec tvoří rozhovor třicátníka Santiaga Zavaly, novináře frustrovaného vlastním nenaplněným životem i situací ve zkorumpovaném Peru 50. let, s bývalým rodinným šoférem mulatem Ambrosiem. Do
'The Feast of the Goat will stand out as the great emblematic novel of Latin America's twentieth century and removes One Hundred Years of Solitude of that title.' Times Literary Supplement Urania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic after a lifelong self-imposed exile. Once
In an isolated community in the Peruvian Andes, a series of mysterious disappearances has occurred. As the investigation progresses, Tomas entertains Lituma with the surreal tale of a precarious love affair. Death in the Andes is both a fascinating detective novel and an insightful political
The conversation flows between two individuals, Santiago and Ambrosia, who talk of their tormented lives and of the degradation and frustration that has taken over their town. In this groundbreaking novel, Mario Vargas Llosa explores the mental and moral mechanisms that govern power and the
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The book's first section is a tete-a-tete with Emma Bovary; the second traces the gestation and birth of the novel, as well as Flaubert's method, his mania for documentation, and the novel's literary sources; the third situates it in literary history. Vargas
In the author's native Peru, this powerful social satire so outraged the authorities that a thousand copies were publicly burned. The novel is set in Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima, where a group of cadets attempt to break out of the vicious round of sadistic ragging, military discipline,
Ismael escapes to Europe with his new bride, leaving Rigoberto to face the twins' threats, and their claims that he connived with a scheming woman to rob an old man of his
In honor of its bicentennial, this richly illustrated, large-format book tells the story of Madrid's famous opera house, the Teatro Real, including a foreword by Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa and various texts examining the history, architecture and influence of the building and the events
When a high-profile businessman is blackmailed by a notorious magazine editor, his comfortable life is threatened by the salacious expose. Then the editor is found murdered, and the two couples have no choice but to descend into the murkiest depths of Peruvian society, while the magazine's staff
In this delightful farce, the prim and proper Captain Pantoja is sent to Peru's Amazon frontier on a secret Army mission - he must find females for the amorous
When the beautiful teenage Lily arrives in Lima in 1950, fifteen-year-old Ricardo falls instantly in love with her. A decade later, now living in Paris, Ricardo falls in love with a woman named Comrade Arlette, who is incredibly similar to Lily but refuses to acknowledge that she is the same
At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer comes across a photograph of a tribal storyteller deep in the Amazon
'A modern tragedy on the grand scale.' Salman RushdieThe War of the End of the World is one of the great modern historical
A young airman is found brutally murdered near an Air Force base in the northern desert. Lieutenant Silva and Officer Lituma set out to investigate, hitching rides on chicken trucks and cajoling a cab driver into taking them to the crime
Set in Peru during the 1950s, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is the story of an 18 year old student who falls for a 32 year old divorcee. At the same time that the author meets his 'Aunt Julia', the radio station, which had been buying scripts by weight from Cuba, hires a Bolivian scriptwriter
Nezdá se to, ale jedná se o knihu autobiografickou. Popisuje můj vlastní intelektuální a politický příběh, cestu vedoucí od marxismem a sartrovským existencialismem načichlého mládí až k liberalismu ve zralém věku přes přehodnocení demokracie, k němuž mi pomohly knihy
Guatemala, 1954. El golpe militar perpetrado por Carlos Castillo Armas y auspiciado por Estados Unidos a trav s de la CIA derroca el gobierno de Jacobo rbenz. Detr s de este acto violento se encuentra una mentira que pas por verdad y que cambi el devenir de Am rica Latina: la acusaci n por parte
Flora died before her grandson was born, but their travels and obsessions unravel side by side in this absorbing novel. A rare study of passion, ambition and the determined pursuit of greatness in the face of illness, death and conservative forces, The Way to Paradise shows Mario Vargas Llosa at
V románu Tetička Julie a zneuznaný génius se autor po letech strávených v cizině a po řadě uměleckých úspěchů vrací k tomu, co bylo, když pracoval v redakci rozhlasové stanice v Limě a pokoušel se psát velkou literaturu a když se jako osmnáctiletý zamiloval do své mnohem
Ve svém zatím posledním románu Náměstí Cinco esquinas (šp. 2017) se peruánský nositel Nobelovy ceny Mario Vargas Llosa vrací do rodné země a svým nejlepším stylem vykresluje devadesátá léta, kdy za vlády prezidenta Fujimoriho žili Peruánci v hrůze z terorismu maoistické
The Cambridge Companion to the Circus provides a complete guide for students, scholars, teachers, researchers, and practitioners who are seeking perspectives on the foundations and evolution of the modern circus, the contemporary extent of circus studies, and the specialised literature available to