Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
- Poetry / Essay
- Alfaguara
- ISBN: 9788420431789
- Release Date: 12-26-2017
Synopsis
Durante un semestre de 2015 Vargas Llosa impartió un curso en la Universidad de Princeton. En él conversó con los alumnos sobre literatura y actualidad, e hizo, junto con ellos y con Rubén Gallo, director del Programa de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la universidad, un análisis profundo de cinco de sus obras. Este libro recoge estas conversaciones en las que el Nobel, con su brillantez acostumbrada, habla del oficio de escritor y de los retos a los que se enfrenta en la construcción de sus novelas. Pero también ofrece un análisis del momento actual. Es especialmente conmovedora la charla con Philippe Lançon, periodista de Charlie Hebdo que sobrevivió al atentado islamista perpetrado contra el semanario satírico en 2015.
Todo lo que los lectores quisieron preguntarle en algún momento al Nobel peruano está en este libro.Una oportunidad sin igual de asistir a un curso magistral sobre literatura y realidad impartido por uno de los escritores más reconocidos y valorados en todo el mundo. Rubén Gallo es profesor de Lengua, Literatura y Civilización de España en la Universidad de Princeton. Es especialista en cultura latinoamericana y dirige el Programa de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la universidad.
Entre sus obras se encuentran Heterodoxos mexicanos: una antología dialogada (2006), Las artes de la ciudad: Ensayos sobre la cultura visual de la capital (2010), y Proust’s Latin Americans (2014).
During a semester in 2015 Vargas Llosa taught a course at Princeton University. In it he spoke with the students about literature and current affairs. Along with the students and with Rubén Gallo, director of Princeton’s Latin American Studies Program, Vargas Llosa performed an in-depth analysis of five of his works. This book gathers these conversations in which the Nobel Prize winner, with his habitual wisdom and brilliance, speaks of the craft of the writer and about challenges that he faces when in the process of creating his novels. But it also offers an analysis of current times. What is especially touching is the conversation with Philippe Lançon, a Charlie Hebdo journalist who survived the Islamist attack perpetrated against the satirical paper in 2015.
Everything that a reader may, at any point, have wanted to ask the Peruvian Nobel Prize winner is in this book. An unparalleled opportunity to experience a master class on literature and reality taught by one of the most recognized and valued writers in the world. Ruben Gallo is a Professor in Language, Literature, and Civilization of Spain at Princeton University. He specializes in modern and contemporary Spanish America and has directed Princeton’s Latin American Studies Program since 2008. Among other works he has published Mexican Heterodoxies: A Conversed Anthology (2006), The Arts of the City: Essays on the Capital’s Visual Culture (2010), and Proust’s Latin Americans (2014).
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