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FURTHER READING

Bibliography

Perry, Larry Stephen. "Mario Vargas Llosa: A Checklist, 1952–1984." Bulletin of Bibliography 43, No. 4 (December 1986): 235-47.

An extensive primary bibliography introduced by a brief overview of Vargas Llosa's career and literary concerns.

Biography

Marzorati, Gerald. "Can a Novelist Save Peru?" The New York Times Magazine (5 November 1989): 45, 47, 100, 102, 104, 106.

Examines Vargas Llosa's political hopes and intentions apropos his campaign for the presidency of Peru.

Criticism

Alter, Robert. "The Metamorphosis." The New Republic 202, Nos. 2-3 (8 & 15 January 1990): 41-2.

Finds that, in The Storyteller, the title character shows "how the act of narrative invention gives us a human handle on birth, sex, and death; sky, earth, and water; pain and healing; animal, vegetable, and...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Mario Vargas Llosa (essay date 1967)
   2. Michael Wood (review date 27 March 1986)
   3. Raymond Leslie Williams (essay date 1986)
   4. Charles Rossman (essay date Winter 1987)
   5. Mary E. Davis (essay date Winter 1987)
   6. Jorge Guzman (review date January-June 1987)
   7. John Updike (review date 24 August 1987)
   8. Charles Rossman (essay date 1987)
   9. Ursula K. Le Guin (review date 29 October 1989)
   10. Mario Vargas Llosa with Ricardo A. Setti (interview date Fall 1990)
   11. John Updike (review date 1 October 1990)
   12. Mario Vargas Llosa (essay date 15 October 1990)
   13. Sara Castro-Klarén (essay date 1990)
   14. Peter Standish (essay date Spring 1991)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright

1. Mario Vargas Llosa