Arguedas / Vargas Llosa

Arguedas / Vargas Llosa PDF Author: Mabel Moraña
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113757187X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283

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An English-language translation of the MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize and LASA Premio Iberoamericano award-winning Spanish-language book, Arguedas/ Vargas Llosa. Dilemas y ensamblajes, Mabel Moraña offers the first comparative study of two of contemporary Latin America's central literary figures: Mario Vargas Llosa and Jose Maria Arguedas.

Arguedas / Vargas Llosa

Arguedas / Vargas Llosa PDF Author: Mabel Moraña
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113757187X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283

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Book Description
An English-language translation of the MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize and LASA Premio Iberoamericano award-winning Spanish-language book, Arguedas/ Vargas Llosa. Dilemas y ensamblajes, Mabel Moraña offers the first comparative study of two of contemporary Latin America's central literary figures: Mario Vargas Llosa and Jose Maria Arguedas.

Arguedas / Vargas Llosa

Arguedas / Vargas Llosa PDF Author: Mabel Moraña
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781137575227
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
An English-language translation of the MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize and LASA Premio Iberoamericano award-winning Spanish-language book, Arguedas/ Vargas Llosa. Dilemas y ensamblajes, Mabel Moraña offers the first comparative study of two of contemporary Latin America's central literary figures: Mario Vargas Llosa and Jose Maria Arguedas.

Deep Rivers

Deep Rivers PDF Author: José María Arguedas
Publisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 1478607793
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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Fiction. In English translation. Jos Mara Arguedas is one of the few Latin American authors who loved and described his natural surroundings, and he ranks among the greatest writers of any time and place. He saw the beauty of the Peruvian landscape, as well as the grimness of social conditions in the Andes, through the eyes of the Indians who are a part of it. Ernesto, the narrator of Deep Rivers, is a child with origins in two worlds. The son of a wandering country lawyer, he is brought up by Indian servants until he enters a Catholic boarding school at age 14. In this urban Spanish environment he is a misfit and a loner. The conflict of the Indian and the Spanish cultures is acted out within him as it was in the life of Arguedas. For the boy Ernesto, salvation is his world of dreams and memories. While Arguedas poetry was published in Quechua, he invented a language for his novels in which he used native syntax with Spanish vocabulary. This makes translation into other languages extremely difficult, and Frances Horning Barraclough has done a masterful job, winning the 1978 Translation Center Award from Columbia University.

A Storyteller

A Storyteller PDF Author: Braulio Muñoz
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847697519
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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In A Story-Teller, Braulio Muñoz offers a critical appraisal of Mario Vargas Llosa's literary and political production from a sociotheoretical perspective. He engages the debate concerning the role of the writer in Latin America, the merits and shortcomings of modernist and postmodernist thought, and the differences between neoliberalism and alternative democractic positions.

Temptation of the Word

Temptation of the Word PDF Author: Efraín Kristal
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826513441
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Originally published in hardcover in 1998.

In Praise of Reading and Fiction

In Praise of Reading and Fiction PDF Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429930780
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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On December 7, 2010, Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His Nobel lLecture is a resounding tribute to fiction's power to inspire readers to greater ambition, to dissent, and to political action. "We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist," Vargas Llosa writes. "Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. When we look in fiction for what is missing in life, we are saying, with no need to say it or even to know it, that life as it is does not satisfy our thirst for the absolute—the foundation of the human condition—and should be better." Vargas Llosa's lecture is a powerful argument for the necessity of literature in our lives today. For, as he eloquently writes, "literature not only submerges us in the dream of beauty and happiness but alerts us to every kind of oppression."

Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa PDF Author: Juan E. De Castro
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816529485
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Examines the life and writings of Mario Vargas Llosa, an outspoken author from Peru, known for his political writings as well as his literary works, who at one time was scheduled to debate Hugo Chavez of Venezuela himself over matters of socialism versus free market neoliberalism--Chavez called the debate off, however, yielding a slough of questions about the late president's convictions about his political views and praise for the strength of Vargas Llosa's.

Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics

Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics PDF Author: Juan E. De Castro
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230113591
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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Mario Vargas Llosa is a heterogeneous writer whose positions have often not been consistent from novel to novel, between his fictional and nonfictional work, between his literary and political commentary, and as his political commentary has proceeded over the decades. This analysis of his work reveals his insights into socio-political matters.

Colonial Divide in Peruvian Narrative

Colonial Divide in Peruvian Narrative PDF Author: Misha Kokotovic
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1837642281
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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Explores debates over Peru's modernisation and cultural identity in post-1940 literature, exploring how writers and others confronted challenges of language, style, and narrative form in their attempt to write across their nation's cultural divisions. This book examines the relationship between Peru's white elite and its indigenous majority.

The Discreet Hero

The Discreet Hero PDF Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374711577
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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In this tale of two Peruvians in separate cities who each stand up to injustice, the Nobel laureate is “a master playing at his craft” (Los Angeles Times). Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in the Peruvian city of Piura, finds himself the victim of blackmail—and finds within himself the will to refuse. Meanwhile, Ismael Carrera, a successful owner of an insurance company in Lima, cooks up a plan to avenge himself against the two lazy sons who want him dead. As their small acts of rebellion unfold, their lives are destined to intersect. In The Discreet Hero, Vargas Llosa examines the possibilities of honorable individuals who insist on taking control of their destinies. He also revisits some unforgettable characters from his previous novels: Sergeant Lituma, Don Rigoberto, Doña Lucrecia, and Fonchito are all here in a prosperous Peru. Vargas Llosa sketches Piura and Lima vividly—and the cities become not merely physical spaces but realms of the imagination populated by his vivid characters. A novel whose humor and pathos shine through in Edith Grossman’s masterly translation, The Discreet Hero is another remarkable achievement from the finest Latin American novelist at work today.