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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.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Mario Vargas Llosa and the Neoliberal Turn
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The Writings of the 1980s and 1990s
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Mario Vargas Llosa in the Twenty-First Century
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Mario Vargas Llosa, Man of Letters
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"Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. Just in time to recognize that honor, Castro and Birns (both, the New School) provide 11 essays outlining Vargas Llosa's part in literature's insurrection in modern culture... The essays elegantly balance one another, leaving the reader with the vision of an erudite, cultured man whose energies and interests explain the variability of his documentary vision and whose 'incendiary' views like those of Sartre, Camus, and Grass will be assessed positively because of Vargas Llosa's commitment to the debate of ideas in contemporary culture... Recommended.'
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"This superb collection of essays brings together a series of lively and sometimes polemical perspectives on the political dimensions of Mario Vargas Llosa's writings. Indispensable reading for anyone seeking a better understanding of Vargas Llosa's intellectual trajectory." - Maarten Van Delden, Professor of Latin American Literature, UCLA
About the authors
Juan E. De Castro is an associate professor of Literature at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts. He is author of Mestizo Nations: Culture, Race, and Conformity in Latin American Literature (2002).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics
Editors: Juan E. Castro, Nicholas Birns
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230113596
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Juan De Castro and Nicholas Birns 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-10529-4Published: 18 October 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-27092-4Published: 11 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11359-6Published: 11 October 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 235
Topics: Latin American Politics, Latin American Culture, International Relations, Literature, general, Postcolonial/World Literature, Literary Theory