Temptation of the Word: The Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa

by Efraín Kristal

Book Overview

Choice Outstanding Academic Book 1998

Temptation of the Word offers 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 1996. To understand the novelist's intellectual environment, Efrain Kristal analyzes the entire corpus of Vargas Llosa's writings, his literary influences...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826513018
• ISBN13: 9780826513014
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"