The Storyteller (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
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
- 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
Characters Discussed
The narrator, a middle-aged Peruvian writer who is similar to and virtually a stand-in for the author. He is a novelist, essayist, and television writer and producer. A consummate intellectual, he is defined by his ideas and his intellectual pursuits; little else of his life is portrayed. The narrator is a man driven by curiosity and his need to clarify mysteries that have hung over his life for decades. His fascination with and affection for his old friend Saúl resulted in a void when Saúl retreated from the narrator’s life. The narrator’s sense of...
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