This Companion offers an overview and assessment of Mario Vargas
Llosa's large body of work, tracing his development as a writer and
intellectual in his essays, critical studies, journalism, and
theatrical works, but above all inhis novels. This companion to the
work of Peruvian Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa traces his
fictional and non-fictional writing throughout the different phases
of a career spanning more than fifty years. His lifelong dedication
to literature goes hand in hand with his commitment as a public
intellectual, a role that frequently involves him in controversy.
Against the backdrop of Vargas Llosa's political and intellectual
development this study brings out the continuities and
interrelations that give unity and coherence to a diverse body of
work. It highlights the thematic concerns that re-emerge at
different points in his writing and link Vargas Llosa's journalism
and essays with his fiction: the effects of social ills on the
individual, the nature of fiction, and the importance of literature
for society. The novels at the centre of his work combine
passionate storytelling with technical complexity and an often
playful experimentation with genres. This book not only provides a
comprehensive overview of Vargas Llosa's writing in the context of
his intellectual biography, but looks in detail at each individual
work, summarizing contents and analyzing the interplay of form,
language, and meaning. A bibliography and suggestions for further
reading complement this Companion which will serve the general
reader as much as the undergraduate and scholar.
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