Letters to a Young Novelist
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Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers. 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. 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.The New York Times Book Review - Suzanne Jill Levine[Llosa's] ambition worthy of . . . masters . . . with a technical skill that brings him closer to the heirs of Flaubert and Henry James.
The Parable of the Tapeworm3The Catoblepas15The Power of Persuasion25Style31The Narrator and Narrative Space41Time59Levels of Reality73Shifts and Qualitative Leaps89Chinese Boxes101The Hidden Fact109Communicating Vessels121By Way of a P.S.131Index of Names and Works133
