Mario Vargas Llosa /
editor Juan E. De Castro, Eugene Lang College, the New School for Liberal Arts, New York.
- xiii, 278 pages ; 24 cm.
- Critical insights .
- Critical insights. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-256) and index.
On Mario Vargas Llosa / Biography of Mario Vargas Llosa / Authoritarianism, rebellion, and the father figure in the fictions of Vargas Llosa / Reading Vargas Llosa: the ups, downs, and ups of a literary career / Natural and built environments: toward an ecocritical reading of the novels of Mario Vargas Llosa / Disentangling the knots: Vargas Llosa and Jos�e Mar�ia Arguedas in La utop�ia arcaica / Charisma and the structures of power: Vargas Llosa's early short stories / The time of the hero: the moral itinerary / From Conversation to Feast: Vargas Llosa's bookend novels of dictatorship / From parable to pedagogy: Mario Vargas Llosa's war on fanaticism / The real life of Alejandro Mayta and The storyteller: success at last for Mario Vargas Llosa's professional narrators / Pessimism and detection in Vargas Llosa's Who killed Palomino Molero? / Reflections on the absurd: a comparative reading of Death in the Andes and The time of the hero / Dissonant worlds: Mario Vargas Llosa and the aesthetics of the total novel / Juan E. De Castro -- Juan E. De Castro -- Carlos Gran�es -- Juan E. De Castro -- Raymond Leslie Williams -- Sara Castro-Klar�en -- Nicholas Birns -- Alonso Cueto -- Gene H. Bell-Villada -- Jeff Browitt -- Jean O'Bryan-Knight -- Miguel Rivera-Taupier -- Haiqing Sun -- Colonialism as a smoke screen: anti-nationalism discourse in Vargas Lloysa's The dream of the Celt / Ignacio L�opez-Calvo -- Mark D. Anderson -- Mario Vargas Llosa and his discontents / Will H. Corral.
Provides an introduction to Mario Vargas Llosa and the critical discussions surrounding his work --