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Wellsprings

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Description for Wellsprings Hardback. When a master novelist, essayist, and critic searches for the wellsprings of his own work, where does he turn? Here, the author a Peruvian writer, presidential contender, and public intellectual - answers this most personal question with elegant concision in this collection of essays. Series: The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature. Num Pages: 152 pages, ill. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 179 x 170 x 22. Weight in Grams: 434.

When a master novelist, essayist, and critic searches for the wellsprings of his own work, where does he turn? Mario Vargas Llosa—Peruvian writer, presidential contender, and public intellectual—answers this most personal question with elegant concision in this collection of essays. In “Four Centuries of Don Quixote,” he revisits the quintessential Spanish novel—a fiction about fiction whose ebullient prose still questions the certainties of our stumbling ideals. In recounting his illicit, delicious discovery of Borges’ fiction—“the most important thing to happen to imaginative writing in the Spanish language in modern times”—Vargas Llosa stands in for a generation of Latin American novelists ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Series
The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674028364
SKU
V9780674028364
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About Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa’s many novels include The Feast of the Goat, The Storyteller, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and, most recently, The Bad Girl. In 2006 he presented the Richard A. Ellmann lectures at Emory University, entitled “Three Masters,” which were adapted for this volume.

Reviews for Wellsprings
In seven incisive essays, novelist and Peruvian political aspirant Vargas Llosa reflects on literature and history, the crucial role of fiction in human society and the link between totalitarianism and nationalism. Lucidly and elegantly, he explores the sources of inspiration for his literary oeuvre, analyzing the significance for Latin American writers of Borges, whose works served to "dispel a kind ... Read more

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