Understanding Mario Vargas Llosa (Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature) - Softcover

Sara Castro-Klaren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0872498484 ISBN 13: 9780872498488

Publisher: The University of South Carolina Press, 1989

Synopsis

Mario Vargas Llosa is considered one of the great Latin American writers of our time. This book probes and analyzes in a scholarly way the entire work to date of this celebrated author of "The War of the End of the World". Sections include the helix narrative, conversation as a vehicle of narrative, stories within stories, double and multiple time and space, cinema and narrative technique, fragmentation and coherence, fiction and history, the hero and society, the failed hero and the writing of fiction, autobiography and fiction, and the writer as hero.

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of South Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0872498484
• ISBN 13: 9780872498488
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 165