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Jun 1, 2003 · Incorporating an imaginary correspondent, Mario Vargas Llosa writes a series of letters to a young protege sharing his years of literary experience and outlining the principles that make a novel. It is an interesting vehicle for an instruction book and it works.
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Jan 1, 2001 · Drawing on the stories and novels of writers from around the globe—Borges, Bierce, Céline, Cortázar, Faulkner, Kafka, Robbe-Grillet—he lays bare the inner workings of fiction, all the while urging young novelists not to lose touch with the elemental urge to create.
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Dec 3, 2010 · Letters to a young novelist. In the tradition of Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet," Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers, revealing in the process his deepest beliefs about the world of letters.
Conversational, eloquent, and effortlessly erudite, this little book is destined to be read and re-read by young writers, old writers, would-be writers, and all those with a stake in the world of letters.
Letters to a Young Novelist is non-fiction book by Mario Vargas Llosa, published in 2002. In 2011 it was listed by The Guardian among the 100 best books in the genre. [1]
Jun 1, 2003 · In 11 vibrant and elegantly argued, essay-long letters, one of the great modern novelists offers advice on the craft of writing. Vargas Llosa, the author of such masterpieces as The Storyteller and In Praise of the Stepmother, here turns his sharp mind to the building blocks of persuasive prose.
Jun 1, 2003 · Incorporating an imaginary correspondent, Mario Vargas Llosa writes a series of letters to a young protege sharing his years of literary experience and outlining the principles that make a novel. It is an interesting vehicle for an instruction book and it works.
- Mario Vargas Llosa
