Citario Vargas Llosa
A collection of quotes about Mario Vargas Llosa: perspectives that place him within the history of contemporary literature.
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Bookspel
The Million-Euro Prize or How the Premio Planeta Lost the Novel and Won Prime Time
If the twentieth century believed in the solitary genius, the twenty-first prefers the television author. And the Planeta is a faithful mirror of the market.
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Citario Canetti
On the anniversary of Elías Canetti’s birth, this citario allows you to hear the babbling and missteps that inhabit books.
Book Reviews
‘The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta’: Vargas Llosa’s ‘other self’
A self-fictional and meta-referential novel that dismantles the total novel, explores the boundaries between chronicle and fiction, and culminates in a surprising ending that redefines Peruvian narrative.
Book Reviews
The Letters of the Boom: the Map that Never Was
The Latin American “Boom” was a fiesta of letters and ruptures, where García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, Fuentes, and Cortázar wove a tapestry of powerful novels, revelry, and political fallout.
Essays
Vargas Llosa or the Fate of the Novelist
If everyone is talking about Vargas Llosa, about his legacy, recalling how and when they read his books, and also bringing up his miseries, it is because someone truly important has left us.