Mario Vargas Llosa
Autor Gerald Martinen Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 noi 2026
'Always compulsive . . . [an] extraordinary portrait' NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE, SPECTATOR
'Chatty yet coolly analytical . . . a searching, stylish account' PRATINAV ANIL, GUARDIAN
Dazzling and deeply researched, Gerald Martin provides a compelling account of the astonishing and profoundly contradictory life of Mario Vargas Llosa, a literary colossus.
When he died in April 2025, the Peruvian novelist and essayist Mario Vargas Llosa was internationally renowned and celebrated, and in the Spanish-speaking world unchallenged as its greatest living writer and most influential intellectual. He was also indisputably the most controversial: he was never out of the headlines in more than six decades of literary and political activity, from the moment he exploded onto the cultural scene in the early 1960s with his first novel, The Time of the Hero, until his last, I Give You My Silence, in 2023.
At first a declared socialist, he changed his mind about the meaning of 'freedom', made the long march through the ideologies and renounced collectivism of every kind until he ended up as a fiery and provocative supporter of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and the neoliberal individualism they espoused.
At nineteen he married an aunt, then replaced her with a teenage first cousin a decade later, only to abandon her in scandalous fashion after fifty years in favour of the most glamorous socialite in post-Franco Spain. He came within a whisker of the presidency of Peru, and in 2010 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; but he also knocked his friend and rival Gabriel García Márquez to the ground with the most famous punch in literary history. Handsome, debonair and almost incomparably ambitious, energetic and determined, Vargas Llosa's personal life was as controversial as his politics.
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'We already have his novels. And now, thankfully, we have this monumental work' Financial Times
'An outstanding achievement unlikely ever to be bettered' Literary Review
'Masterful ... An astonishing feat' Sunday Telegraph
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781639737727
ISBN-10: 1639737723
Pagini: 848
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury USA
ISBN-10: 1639737723
Pagini: 848
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury USA
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In Mario Vargas Llosa: A Life, Gerald Martin presents the late Peruvian-born author as a compellingly contradictory figure - at once as the admirable, dashing, brilliant enfant terrible of the Latin American Boom, who went on to become a grand old man of Western letters, and a Nobel laureate - but also as someone reprehensible, a man deeply self-centred and vainglorious, ideologically disingenuous, and a pathological deceiver of those closest to him. A truly fascinating and engrossing read
Always compulsive.I was a friend of Vargas Llosa for 40 years. but reading Martin's extraordinary portrait I realise how little I knew him
This chatty yet coolly analytical biography. traces the path of a novelist who began by dissecting oligarchy with surgical precision and ended happily dining among its ranks. Martin has written a genuinely critical life. a searching, stylish account whose real subject is not merely Vargas Llosa but the intellectual and political milieux that made and unmade him
Immaculately sourced. A riveting account. Mario Vargas Llosa: A Life remains a considerable achievement: gossipy, erudite and deeply researched, it will be the last word on the man who wanted to be the most famous writer in the Hispanic world since Cervantes
Forensic. Martin's irreverent, myth-busting, at times barbed biography inspects the largely un-self-examined relationship between the novelist's politics and his writing
A towering monument to dashed hopes and bitter disappointments. Think of it as a sprawling non-fiction novel, but scrupulously accurate: an incendiary epic, on both sides, of illusions cherished and paradise mislaid
The first part of this biography is utterly brilliant, sharply insightful on the novels and incisive on the development of this singular man
Always compulsive.I was a friend of Vargas Llosa for 40 years. but reading Martin's extraordinary portrait I realise how little I knew him
This chatty yet coolly analytical biography. traces the path of a novelist who began by dissecting oligarchy with surgical precision and ended happily dining among its ranks. Martin has written a genuinely critical life. a searching, stylish account whose real subject is not merely Vargas Llosa but the intellectual and political milieux that made and unmade him
Immaculately sourced. A riveting account. Mario Vargas Llosa: A Life remains a considerable achievement: gossipy, erudite and deeply researched, it will be the last word on the man who wanted to be the most famous writer in the Hispanic world since Cervantes
Forensic. Martin's irreverent, myth-busting, at times barbed biography inspects the largely un-self-examined relationship between the novelist's politics and his writing
A towering monument to dashed hopes and bitter disappointments. Think of it as a sprawling non-fiction novel, but scrupulously accurate: an incendiary epic, on both sides, of illusions cherished and paradise mislaid
The first part of this biography is utterly brilliant, sharply insightful on the novels and incisive on the development of this singular man