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Awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010 at the age of seventy-four, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has held pivotal roles in the evolution and revolutions of modern Latin American literature. Perhaps surprisingly, no complete history of Vargas Llosa’s works, placed in biographical and historical context, has been published—until now. A masterwork from one of America’s most revered scholars of Latin American fiction, Mario Vargas Llosa: A Life of Writing provides a critical overview of Vargas Llosa’s numerous novels while reinvigorating debates regarding conventional interpretations of the work. Weaving analysis with discussions of the writer’s political commentary, Raymond Leslie Williams traces the author’s youthful identity as a leftist student of the 1960s to a repudiation of some of his earlier ideas beginning in the 1980s. Providing a unique perspective on the complexity, nuance, and scope of Vargas Llosa’s lauded early novels and on his passionate support of indigenous populations in his homeland, Williams then turns his eye to the recent works, which serve as a bridge between the legacies of the Boom and the diverse array of contemporary Latin American fiction writers at work today. In addition, Williams provides a detailed description of Vargas Llosa’s traumatic childhood and its impact on him—seen particularly in his lifelong disdain for authority figures—as well as of the authors who influenced his approach, from Faulkner to Flaubert. Culminating in reflections drawn from Williams’s formal interviews and casual conversations with the author at key phases of both men’s careers, this is a landmark publication that will spark new lines of inquiry into an intricate body of work.

Vargas Llosa, Mario, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Vargas Llosa, Mario. --- Vargas, Mario --- Llosa, Mario Vargas --- Vargas Llosa, M. --- Llosa, M. Vargas --- Varguitas --- Vargas Lʹosa, Mario --- Lʹosa, Mario Vargas --- Вагас ЛЬоса, Марио --- Варгас Льоса, Марио --- ורגס יוסה, מאריו, --- ורגס יוסה, מריו, --- יוסה, מריו ורגס, --- يوسا,ماريو فارغاس, --- Vargas Llosa, Mario --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.

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This book offers discussion and analysis of the subtle writing of Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez - a traditionalist who draws from classic Western texts, a Modernist committed to modernizing the conservative literary tradition in Colombia and Latin America, an internationally recognized major writer of the 1960s Boom, the key figure in popularizing what has been called "magic realism" and, finally, a Modernist who has occasionally engaged in some of the strategies of the postmodern. The author demonstrates that García Márquez is above all a committed and highly accomplished Modernist fiction writer who has successfully synthesized his political vision in his writing and absorbed a vast array of cultural and literary traditions. Drawing on García Márquez's interviews with Williams and others over the years, the book also explores the importance of the non-literary, the presence of oral tradition and the visual arts, thus providing a more complete insight into García Márquez's strategies as a Modernist with heterogeneous aesthetic interests, as well as an understanding of his social and political preoccupations.

Latin American literature --- Nobel Prize winners. --- History and criticism --- García Márquez, Gabriel, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Laureates, Nobel --- Nobel laureates --- Nobelists --- Winners of Nobel Prizes --- Award winners --- García Márquez, Gabriel --- Chia-hsi-ya Ma-erh-kʻo-ssu, --- Chia-hsi-ya, Ma-erh-kʻo-ssu, --- Chia-hsi-ya Ma-erh-kʻo-ssu, Chia-fu-lieh-erh, --- Gacxia Mackết, Gabriel, --- García Márquez, G. --- Garsia Markes, G. --- Garsia Markes, Gabriėlʹ, --- Gkarthia Markes, Gkampriel, --- Ma-erh-kʻo-ssu, Chia-hsi-ya, --- Mackêt, G. G., --- Markes, Gabriėlʹ Garsia, --- Marḳes, Gavriʼel Garsiyah, --- Márquez, Gabriel García, --- Garsija Markez, Gabriel, --- Гарсия Маркес, Габриэль, --- Гарсија Маркез, Габриел, --- גארסיה מארקס, גבריאל --- גרסיה מארקס, גבריאל, --- غارسيّا ماركيز، غابرييل، --- گارسيا ماركز، گابريل --- ガルシヤマルケスガブリエル, --- ガルシアマルケス, --- Gabo, --- History and criticism. --- Gabriel García Márquez. --- Latin American writers. --- Modernist. --- cultural. --- literary traditions. --- magic realism. --- oral tradition. --- political preoccupations. --- political vision. --- social. --- twentieth century. --- visual arts.

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