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SABINE KÖLLMANN is an independent academic writer living in London.
This Companion offers an overview and assessment of Mario Vargas Llosa's large body of work, tracing his development as a writer and intellectual in his essays, critical studies, journalism, and theatrical works, but above all inhis novels.
PrefaceIntroductionTwo sides of a vocation: writer and intellectualTruth and lies: literary theory and criticismJournalism and essays: from art to politicsPrelude: Los jefes (1959)Experimenting with form and language: narratives of the 1960s and 1970sTowards the total novel: La guerra del fin del mundo (1981)Experimenting with genres: novels of the 1980s and afterInterlude: the demons of literature and politics (El pez en el agua, 1993)The return of the grand design: La Fiesta del Chivo (2000), El Paraíso en la otra esquina (2003) and El sueño del celta (2010)Life's Dreams: the Storyteller on StageSuggestions for Further ReadingBibliographyIndex