La orgia perpetua/ The Perpetual Orgy:Flaubert and Madame Bovary (Biblioteca Mario Vargas Llosa) (Spanish Edition)
News: Opinion -- KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa notes that human nature demands two things from the world around us. One is a hero, someone we pray will solve our problems. The other is a villain, someone to blame for creating them. Without both, life lacks the clarity many crave.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa and Mexican author Carlos Fuentes will headline one of the world's largest book fairs this year.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa and Mexican author Carlos Fuentes will headline one of the world's largest book fairs this year.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Repertorio Español’s rousing production of “Pantaleón y las Visitadoras,” a musical based on a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, could give bawdiness a good name.
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Cortázar's vividly experimental, uncanny tales are among the best work of 'el boom' in Latin American writing Since his death in 1984, Argentine novelist, poet and short story writer Julio Cortázar 's reputation in the English-speaking world has fluctuated, the trend heading more towards a waning than a waxing. Known-of rather than widely read, some recognition is still afforded him...
西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
"The Arawaks at first welcomed the newcomers with awe and affection, hoping for their protection from the marauding Caribs, who descended on them from the Leeward Islands to steal their women and castrate and fatten their young men for food," J.M. Cohen informs us in the introduction to his translation of Christopher Columbus I began reading on the man's day — The Four Voyages: Being...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
(Editor’s note: This is the 67th installment of our ongoing Friday blog series highlighting great but forgotten books. Today’s selection comes from Ned Kelly Award-winning Australian author Marshall Browne. A onetime banker and former paratrooper, Browne penned three novels about a false-legged Roman detective, Inspector Anders, including Inspector Anders and the Ship of Fools [2001] and...
The Irascible Poet (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Herta Muller, a member of the Romania's German minority and a fine poet and writer has won the Nobel Prize. Below is a list of the last 1o winners notice a trend? 2009 - Herta Müller -Romania/Germany 2008 - Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio -France 2007 - Doris Lessing -UK 2006 - Orhan Pamuk -Turkey 2005 - Harold Pinter -UK 2004 - Elfriede Jelinek -Austria 2003 - J. M. Coetzee -South Africa...
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
A lot of you have been coming in looking for the Nobel Prize for Literature betting odds and leaving comments on last year’s competition – so we’ve decided to show you the odds available for the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. Here are the betting odds available: Amos Oz 3/1 Herta Mu�ller 3/1 Joyce Carol Oates 5/1 Philip Roth 5/1 Thomas Pynchon 7/1 Adonis 9/1 Assia Djebar...
Outside Counsel (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Nobel Prize handicapping. I think the IOC's rejection of Chicago reflects a deep seated anti-American sentiment, so sorry Philip Roth and Joyce Carol Oates (and Bob Dylan). If it hasn't happened for Amos Oz or Adonis I don't think it is going to happen this year either. I like Murakami, but I think he needs to build up a larger body of work. We've had Pinter (more evidence of animus to America) and...
Cuaderno Latinoamericano (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Because we just read about a the power of the story (and the carrier of those stories) in The Storyteller by Mario Vargas Llosa, I thought I'd share an excerpt from a piece I wrote last spring about the Zapatistas that captures how they have used storytelling to both share their movement with the world and to inspire a visionary politics that is able to see beyond hegemonic ideas and structures. You...
Cuaderno Latinoamericano (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Since our LAST class is discussing a novel next week written by the famous peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, I began to read his biography and provided an excerpt below: (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Vargas_Llosa) Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmaɾjo ˈβarɣas ˈʎosa] ) (born March 28, 1936) is a Peruvian writer, politician...
The Latin Americanist (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
* Colombia: A survey conducted of international writers named Gabriel Garcia Marquez' “One Hundred Years of Solitude” as the most influential piece of world literature of the past quarter-century. * Peru: On a related note, Peru’s Mario Vargas Llosa won the Caballero Bonald Prize for his book on Uruguayan author Juan Carlos Onetti. * Honduras: The country’s political stalemate...
The F-Word Blog (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
When we talk about the foremothers of feminism on this blog, all too often we skew towards UK history and UK feminism. I've just finished reading Mario Vargas Llosa's novel, The Way to Paradise, a double biography of French-Peruvian feminist...
Bernadette Geyer (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
I'm on a fiction-reading kick right now. Taking a break from poetry for a few weeks. Next on my list is Mario Vargas Llosa's The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto . Considering that the last book I read by Llosa was The Feast of the Goat , I believe this is going to be a totally different experience with Llosa.
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