Temptation of the Word: The Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa
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.
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Temptation of the Word: The Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa
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.
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Temptation of the Word: The Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa

Temptation of the Word: The Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa

by Efrain Kristal
Temptation of the Word: The Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa

Temptation of the Word: The Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa

by Efrain 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826513441
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Publication date: 03/27/1998
Pages: 276
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Efrain Kristal is professor of Spanish and comparative literature at UCLA and author of Temptation of the Word: The Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa, also published by Vanderbilt University Press.
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