La orgia perpetua/ The Perpetual Orgy:Flaubert and Madame Bovary (Biblioteca Mario Vargas Llosa) (Spanish Edition)
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The 23rd edition of the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) will welcome world-renowned writers including Orhan Pamuk, Ray Bradbury, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa for its international literary programs. Beginning this year on November 28, FIL is a nine-day gathering of authors, publishers, artists, and intellectuals from throughout the Spanish-speaking world and beyond.
Literanista (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I would like to propose a new book challenge for bloggers (perhaps for 2010?), based on "the compilation of the best literature every Latina should check out put together by Latina Magazine: 25 Books Every Latina Should Read" The "25 Books Every Latina/o Should Read" Challenge: The House of Spirits Isabel Allende One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez In The Time of...
Practicing Writing (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The definining characteristic of the literary vocation may be that those who possess it experience the exercise of their craft as its own best reward, much superior to anything they might gain from the fruits of their labors. That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to
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...
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