The Storyteller (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Plot: Philosophical realism
- Time of Work: The 1950’s to the 1980’s
- Setting: Lima, Peru; the Peruvian Amazon; and Florence, Italy
- Principal Characters: The Narrator, Saúl Zuratas, The Storyteller, Tasurinchi
- Genres: Long fiction, Philosophical realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s, Native Americans or American Indians, Jews or Jewish life, Storytelling, Italy or Italians, Amazon, South America or South Americans
- Locales: Florence, Italy, Lima, Peru, Amazon, Brazil
The Novel
The Storyteller is an intriguing, often disturbing exploration of the Machiguengas, a real, indigenous, nomadic tribe in the Peruvian Amazon, and of the encroachment of modern life and values into their environment and culture. Mario Vargas Llosa frames this exploration as a quest for information about both the tribe and a Jewish student from Lima who may have been absorbed into it.
The narrator resembles Vargas Llosa himself. Like the author, he is a Peruvian novelist who vacations in Florence, Italy, and who once hosted a Peruvian television magazine....
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