Understanding Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa is considered one of the great Latin American writers of our time. This book probes and analyzes in a scholarly way the entire work to date of this celebrated author of The War of the End of the World. Sections include the helix narrative, conversation as a vehicle of narrative, stories within stories, double and multiple time and space, cinema and narrative technique, fragmentation and coherence, fiction and history, the hero and society, the failed hero and the writing of fiction, autobiography and fiction, and the writer as hero.