Description
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays associated with Mario Vargas Llosa’s visits to the City College of New York offers readers an opportunity to learn about his body of work through his own perspective and those of key fiction writers and literary critics.
Trade Review"I am personally grateful for the work of Mario Vargas Llosa, which has deeply challenged and transformed my view of myself and the world. This exceptional volume has helped me to see the impact of the Nobel Laureate's writing and life experiences with even greater clarity and appreciation."—David P. Wiseman,
Hispania"We
do need really innovative books on Mario Vargas Llosa’s prose, and this one could be a standard. . . . Professors Chang-Rodríguez and Riobó adeptly gather essays presented originally as lectures for the Mario Vargas Llosa Chair at the City University of New York, complemented here by thematic readings of some of his novels, conversations with the writer, and a couple of his articles."—Will H. Corral,
Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas“This book allows us to see Mario Vargas Llosa from a personal perspective that is nonetheless political. . . . As we study again his uses of time and space, literary techniques, original characterizations, and embedded political metaphors about the world we inhabit, we confirm that Vargas Llosa has created a literary universe of his own that resists labels and continues to evolve.”—Oswaldo Estrada, author of
Troubled Memories: Iconic Mexican Women and the Traps of RepresentationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Raquel Chang-Rodríguez and Carlos Riobó
In Conversation with the 2010 Nobel Laureate
1. Genesis and Evolution of Captain Pantoja and the Special Services
Mario Vargas Llosa
2. The Return of the Monsters
Mario Vargas Llosa
3. From Miguel de Cervantes to César Moro
Mario Vargas Llosa and Alonso Cueto
Life and Literature
4. Discreet and Injudicious Heroes in the Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa
Efraín Kristal
5. A Life Worthy of a Novel
J. J. Armas Marcelo
6. Vargas Llosa and Cervantes: Modern Knights
Alonso Cueto
History, Authority, and Ideology
7. A Poetics of Freedom
Carlos Franz
8. The Eye of the Beholder
Mónica Lavín
9. Historical Fact/Historical Fiction in The Feast of the Goat
Ángel L. Estévez
Other Tales
10. The Storyteller: Narrating Latin America from Europe
Carlos Riobó
11. Rubén Darío through Mario Vargas Llosa’s Looking Glass
Raquel Chang-Rodríguez
12. Mario Vargas Llosa at the New York Public Library
Robert Dumont
Contributors
Index
