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Vargas Llosa: Seven Stories from Spanish America

1995 Fiction
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Release : 1995
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Book Synopsis Vargas Llosa: Seven Stories from Spanish America by : Gordon Brotherston

Download or read book Vargas Llosa: Seven Stories from Spanish America written by Gordon Brotherston. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graded according to difficulty, this work offers stories that offer an insight into Spanish America. They range over the extent of its geography, from Mexico and the Caribbean to the Southern Cone, and probe its varied and complex societies. Each text comes with English notes and vocabulary, and an introduction.

Seven Stories from Spanish America, Selected and Introduced by

1968 Short stories, Spanish American
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Release : 1968
Genre : Short stories, Spanish American
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Download or read book Seven Stories from Spanish America, Selected and Introduced by written by . This book was released on 1968. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In Praise of Reading and Fiction

2011-04-12 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2011-04-12
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis In Praise of Reading and Fiction by : Mario Vargas Llosa

Download or read book In Praise of Reading and Fiction written by Mario Vargas Llosa. This book was released on 2011-04-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 7, 2010, Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His Nobel lLecture is a resounding tribute to fiction's power to inspire readers to greater ambition, to dissent, and to political action. "We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist," Vargas Llosa writes. "Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. When we look in fiction for what is missing in life, we are saying, with no need to say it or even to know it, that life as it is does not satisfy our thirst for the absolute—the foundation of the human condition—and should be better." Vargas Llosa's lecture is a powerful argument for the necessity of literature in our lives today. For, as he eloquently writes, "literature not only submerges us in the dream of beauty and happiness but alerts us to every kind of oppression."

Sabers and Utopias

2018-02-27 Art
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Release : 2018-02-27
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 730/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Sabers and Utopias by : Mario Vargas Llosa

Download or read book Sabers and Utopias written by Mario Vargas Llosa. This book was released on 2018-02-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A landmark collection of essays on the Nobel laureate’s conception of Latin America, past, present, and future Throughout his career, the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa has grappled with the concept of Latin America on a global stage. Examining liberal claims and searching for cohesion, he continuously weighs the reality of the continent against the image it projects, and considers the political dangers and possibilities that face this diverse set of countries. Now this illuminating and versatile collection assembles these never-before-translated criticisms and meditations. Reflecting the intellectual development of the writer himself, these essays distill the great events of Latin America’s recent history, analyze political groups like FARC and Sendero Luminoso, and evaluate the legacies of infamous leaders such as Papa Doc Duvalier and Fidel Castro. Arranged by theme, they trace Vargas Llosa’s unwavering demand for freedom, his embrace of and disenchantment with revolutions, and his critique of nationalism, populism, indigenism, and corruption. From the discovery of liberal ideas to a defense of democracy, buoyed by a passionate invocation of Latin American literature and art, Sabers and Utopias is a monumental collection from one of our most important writers. Uncompromising and adamantly optimistic, these social and political essays are a paean to thoughtful engagement and a brave indictment of the discrimination and fear that can divide a society.

The Night

2022-02-08 Fiction
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Release : 2022-02-08
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Night by : Rodrigo Blanco Calderon

Download or read book The Night written by Rodrigo Blanco Calderon. This book was released on 2022-02-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers who love Bolaño, a new voice of Latin American fiction, winner of the Mario Vargas Llosa Prize. Recurring blackouts envelop Caracas in an inescapable darkness that makes nightmares come true. Real and fictional characters, most of them are writers, exchange the role of narrator in this polyphonic novel. They recount contradictory versions of the plot, a series of femicides that began with the energy crisis. The central narrator is a psychiatrist who manipulates the accounts of his friend, an author writing a book titled The Night; and his patient, an advertising executive obsessed with understanding the world through word puzzles. The author shifts between crime fiction and metafiction, cautioning readers that the events retold are both true and manipulated. This is a political novel about the financial crisis and socio-political division in Venezuela from 2008 to 2010. The title of the book, originally also in English, is a gesture towards Chavism's failure to resist US influence. Yet, the form is unapologetically literary, a reflection on the depiction and distortion of reality through storytelling. Blanco Calderón said about the potential of language, "I am convinced that all the evil in the world begins in them: in words" (Caracas, 2010).

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