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050 00 $aPQ8498.32.A65$bZ697 1996
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100 1 $aKristal, Efraín,$d1959-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87875510
245 10 $aTemptation of the word :$bthe novels of Mario Vargas Llosa /$cEfrain Kristal.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNashville :$bVanderbilt University Press,$c1998.
263 $a9801
300 $axvii, 256 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 238-248) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tThe Writer's Commitment --$gCh. 2.$tThe Novels of the 1960s --$gCh. 3.$tThe Transition --$gCh. 4.$tAgainst Wind and Tide --$gCh. 5.$tThe Novels of the 1980s.
520 $aTemptation of the Word is an ambitious and careful reading of the creative process - the origin of themes and the development of literary techniques - that Mario Vargas Llosa has brought to each of his novels, published through 1997.
520 8 $aTo understand the novelist's intellectual environment, Kristal analyzes the entire corpus of Vargas Llosa's writings (including his many books of essays and his plays), his literary influences in several languages, his intellectual biography, and his polemical activism in contentious times, all in the light of the evolution of his political views and concept of literature.
520 8 $aKristal's analysis of each of the novels sheds light on how literary techniques, themes, and character types appear, recur, and are transformed over the four decades Vargas Llosa has been active as a writer of narrative fiction. In turn, Kristal's close readings are enriched by other sections of the book that offer insights into the intellectual currents and the political ideas that are addressed in Vargas Llosa's novels.
520 8 $aThis method brings to bear the most pertinent contextual debates, such as a discussion of the way his works borrow from, and sometimes rewrite, masterpieces, by Conrad, Faulkner, Flaubert, Malraux, Stendahl, and Tolstoy, as well as exemplary works in the Latin American narrative tradition.
600 10 $aVargas Llosa, Mario,$d1936-$xCriticism and interpretation.
852 00 $bglx$hPQ8498.32.A65$iZ697 1998
852 00 $bbar$hPQ8498.32.A65$iZ697 1996