Mario Vargas Llosa, Author . Harvard Univ. $17.95 (202p) ISBN 978-0-674-02836-4
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
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Mario Vargas Llosa, Author Santillana USA Publishing Company $26.95 (719p) ISBN 978-968-19-0799-0
In 1977, after the success of his best-selling novel La tia Julia y el escribidor (Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Alfaguara, 2000, reprint), celebrated boom-generation Peruvian author Vargas Llosa began what is now recognized as his tour de ...
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Mario Vargas Llosa, Author Catedra Alfonso Reyes Itesm $8.95 (108p) ISBN 978-970-9031-11-9
In this latest publication, celebrated Peruvian novelist, playwright, and essayist Vargas Llosa (La fiesta del chivo [The Day of the Goat], Cr!ticas, Summer 2001) presents his views on literature and politics and on the craft of writing. The book
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Mario Vargas Llosa, Author Collier Books $6.95 (151p) ISBN 978-0-02-022570-6
The distinguished Peruvian novelist (Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter et al.) examines the more sinister aspects of human nature in this story of political and psychological corruption. ""Written with colloquial ease and gritty dialogue, this taut...
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Mario Vargas Llosa, Author Aguilar $27.95 (599p) ISBN 978-968-19-0817-1
Peruvian author Vargas Llosa is one of the most prolific writers of our time; his novels, essays, and journalistic pieces are released in a steady stream, never seeming to suffer in quality. This latest volume collects his columns from the...
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Mario Vargas Llosa, Author Aguilar, Altea, Taurus, Alfaguara, S.A. de C. $24.95 (518p) ISBN 978-968-19-0699-3
Vargas Llosa attempts to give a historic explanation of the cruel tyranny of the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic in his latest novel. Through Urania, the daughter of one of Trujillo's cronies who returns to her native ...
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Mario Vargas Llosa, Author, John King, Editor Farrar Straus Giroux $27.5 (336p) ISBN 978-0-374-20038-1
This varied collection of essays, written over three decades and appearing in publications worldwide, traces the development of Vargas Llosa's thinking on government, society and culture. An expatriate, he regards his native Peru with ""a hatred...
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Mario Vargas Llosa, trans. from the Spanish by John King. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $22 (240p) ISBN 978-0-374-12304-8
One of the world's great literary figures, Peruvian Nobel Prize winner Vargas Llosa, now 78, offers a trenchant collection of long essays plus related articles written for El Pais, the Madrid newspaper. They approach required reading for any serious
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Mario Vargas Llosa, trans. from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-374-14674-0
Nobel laureate Llosa (The Feast of the Goat) returns to smalltown Peru in this lyrical and witty new novel. The story revolves around two men: Felicíto Yanaque in Piura and Ismael Carrera in Lima. Don Felicíto, owner of a small transport company, is
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Mario Vargas Llosa, Author, Edith Grossman, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (276p) ISBN 978-0-374-18243-4
Veteran Peruvian novelist Vargas Llosa's appealing, nostalgic latest opens in the summer of 1950, as Ricardo “Slim” Somocurcio, a rambunctious teen in the affluent Miraflores section of Lima, meets 14-year-old nymph Lily. With her...
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Mario Vargas Llosa, trans. from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-374-14346-6
A Nobel Prize for Literature winner (in 2010) and one-time Peruvian presidential candidate, Vargas Llosa chronicles the life of Roger Casement, an Irish patriot and human rights activist, or “specialist in atrocities,” who was executed by the...
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Mario Vargas Llosa, Author, Edith Grossman, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-374-15476-9
"This wasn't an enemy he could defeat like the hundreds, the thousands he had confronted and conquered over the years, buying them, intimidating them, killing them." So thinks Rafael Trujillo, "the Goat," dictator of the...
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Mario Vargas Llosa, Author, Edith Grossman, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-14001-4
Ancient and modern horrors mingle in Vargas Llosa's somber yet oddly zestful novel, the most direct examination the Peruvian writer has made of his nation's complex political problems since The War of the End of the World and The Real Life of...
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Mario Vargas Llosa, Author, Natasha Wimmer, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (373p) ISBN 978-0-374-22803-3
Postimpressionist painter Paul Gauguin's dramatic life inspired Somerset Maugham's classic The Moon and Sixpence; now Vargas Llosa takes his turn re-imagining the artist's story in an intricately detailed novel that also chronicles the...
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Mario Vargas Llosa, Author, Helen Lane, Translator Penguin Books $12.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-14-015708-6
Don Rigoberto and his second wife arouse each other by telling highly eroticized classic myths based on the six well-known paintings reproduced here in color; meanwhile, Rigoberto's seemingly cherubic young son, Alfonso, cunningly seduces his...
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Mario Vargas Llosa, Author, Helen Lane, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $25 (532p) ISBN 978-0-374-15509-4
In a dramatic, ebullient memoir, eminent Peruvian novelist Vargas Llosa recounts his unsuccessful bid for the Peruvian presidency in 1990 on a reformist platform. Believing private enterprise to be the driving force of economic development, Vargas...
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Mario Vargas Llosa, Author, Helen Lane, Translator Penguin Books $12.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-014349-2
A narrator tells of his college friend, a man obsessed with preserving the culture of a tiny isolated Indian tribe in the Amazon jungle. ``The author's moral conscience and political consciousness are evidenced in this slim volume, less conventional
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Mario Vargas Llosa, Author, Helen Lane, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $17.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-27085-8
The author's moral conscience and political consciousness (at one point he considered running for the presidency of Peru) are evidenced in this slim volume, less conventional novel than a blend of memoir, folklore and polemic. The narrator tells of...
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Mario Vargas Llosa, Author, Alfred J. Mac Adam, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $16.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-24776-8
Despair hangs over this somber novel, a desolation as omnipresent as the garbage dumped on the streets of the author's native Lima. The setting is Peru in the near future, a military dictatorship besieged by Cuban-backed rebels and defended by U.S....
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Mario Vargas Llosa, Author, Alfred M. Adam, Translator, Alfred J. Mac Adam, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $14.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-374-28978-2
In the 1950s, a hanging, castrated, garroted corpse is discovered in a field outside a small town in Peru, revealing a murder that is never satisfactorily solved and a political intrigue that's never untangled. Written by the distinguished Peruvian...
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Natasha Wimmer, Translator, Mario Vargas Llosa, Author , trans. from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-18326-4
In the United States, Vargas Llosa is best known for his novels (In Praise of the Stepmother; etc.), but in Spanish-speaking countries, he's also noted as a thoughtful, intense newspaper columnist. His essays on the machinations of countries...
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Natasha Wimmer, Translator, Mario Vargas Llosa, Author , trans. from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $16 (144p) ISBN 978-0-374-11916-4
Now based in London and teaching at Georgetown University in the U.S., Peruvian novelist and erstwhile politician Vargas Llosa's novels (In Praise of the Stepmother, etc.) and essays (Making Waves). Though the "Letters to a Young—"
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Susan Daitch, Author, Mario Vargas Llosa, Author, Fay Weldon, Author Serpent's Tail $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-85242-179-3
Rowe's lively collection of 33 stories and poems on English life is often humorous, usually engrossing and altogether merciless. Kathy Lette's monologue presents a supremely bitchy London career woman who meets her match and is neatly skewered over...
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Mario Vargas Llosa, trans. from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-374-15512-4
Llosa’s lively novel belongs in the pantheon of guilty pleasures by Nobel winners. Set in the waning years of Alberto Fujimori’s Peru, a time of “kidnappings, the curfew, blackouts, the whole nightmare,” the novel is structured as a breezy thriller...
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Mario Vargas Llosa, trans. from the Spanish by Anna Kushner. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-25373-8
Written between 1979 and 2014, these 38 penetrating essays by Pulitzer-winning novelist Vargas Llosa (The Discreet Hero) shine a light on the social and political realities of contemporary Latin America. Although most are focused on historical...
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Mario Vargas Llosa, trans. from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-60123-2
Peruvian Nobel laureate Vargas Llosa (The Neighborhood) spins a complex and mostly propulsive tale of deception, centered on Guatemala’s political strife during the 1950s and ’60s. The Eisenhower administration latches onto a lie about communism...
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Mario Vargas Llosa, trans. from the Spanish by John King. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-11805-1
Nobel Prize winner Vargas Llosa (Harsh Times) lays out in this pensive survey the seven thinkers who shaped his belief in liberal democracy. An early supporter of the Cuban Revolution and socialism, Vargas Llosa saw how powerful “the call of the...
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Mario Vargas Llosa and Rubén Gallo, trans. from the Spanish by Anna Kushner. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-12901-9
A 2015 seminar co-taught by Peruvian author Llosa and Princeton professor Gallo comes to the page in this fascinating volume. The seminar, on politics and literature, sees Gallo prompt in-depth personal reflections and considered opinions from the...
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