Vargas Llosa, Mario (Vol. 9) | Vargas Llosa, Mario 1936–
Vargas Llosa, Mario 1936–
Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian novelist now living in Spain whose works generally revolve around satirical assessments of life's institutions. The military, church, and brothel, for example, are, as Vargas Llosa views them, potentially dangerous institutions because they force pure human instincts into ritualistic expressions. Critically acclaimed for his masterly use of juxtapositions, time sequences, and naturalistic devices, Vargas Llosa has received many awards and prizes. (See also CLC, Vols. 3, 6, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 73-76.)
Conversation in the Cathedral is not only cinematic in the sense defined by Eisenstein [in Film Form] but a masterpiece of montage as well, a massive assault on simultaneity that properly calls to mind not only the works of master directors but of those authors whom Eisenstein himself mentions: Flaubert, Dickens, Joyce.
Now I am not suggesting that...
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