Temptation of the Word : The Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa Paperback - 1998
by Kristal, Efrain
- Used
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- Title Temptation of the Word : The Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa
- Author Kristal, Efrain
- Binding Paperback
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 276
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-03-27
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 16142151-6
- ISBN 9780826513441 / 0826513441
- Weight 0.98 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.95 x 6.04 x 0.72 in (22.73 x 15.34 x 1.83 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Library of Congress subjects Vargas Llosa, Mario - Criticism and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97021194
- Dewey Decimal Code 863
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From the rear cover
Kristal's analysis of each of the novels sheds light on how literary techniques, themes, and character types appear, recur, and are transformed over the four decades Vargas Llosa has been active as a writer of narrative fiction. In turn, Kristal's close readings are enriched by other sections of the book that offer insights into the intellectual currents and the political ideas that are addressed in Vargas Llosa's novels. This method brings to bear the most pertinent contextual debates, such as a discussion of the way his works borrow from, and sometimes rewrite, masterpieces by Conrad, Faulkner, Flaubert, Malraux, Stendahl, and Tolstoy, as well as exemplary works in the Latin American narrative tradition.
While the political content of Vargas Llosa's novels has novels betrayed his convictions, he has successfully avoided the temptation-fatal, according to Flaubert -- of reproducing rather than recreating reality. Kristal concludes that the central concern of Vargas Llosa's novels is a premise that the hopes and desires of individuals are always greater than theirability to fulfill them.
