Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 160
Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-0-8476-9750-2 • Hardback • January 2000 • $142.00 • (£109.00)
978-0-8476-9751-9 • Paperback • January 2000 • $42.00 • (£35.00)
Braulio Muñoz is professor of sociology at Swarthmore College.
Part 1 Preface
Part 2 Acknowledgements
Chapter 3 1. On Literature
Chapter 4 2. Daemons and the Total Novel
Chapter 5 3. On Truthtelling
Chapter 6 4. A Writer's Morality
Chapter 7 5. Civilization and Barbarism
Chapter 8 6. Politics and Literature
Chapter 9 7. Writer and Politico
Chapter 10 8. History and Freedom
Chapter 11 9. Memory
Chapter 12 10. The Storyteller
Chapter 13 11. Two Foxes of Peru
Part 14 Epilogue
Part 15 Notes
Part 16 Selected Bibliography
Part 17 Index
Part 18 About the Author
Against these times of post-modern relativism, Vargas Llosa embodies the need for a master narative, a single view, a whole encompassing truth. But in . . . this book, Braulio Munoz, with Kant and Derrida by his side, looks the man in the eye and the rest is literature—which amounts to a lively, even fascinating reading.
— Julio Ortega, Brown University
An invaluable addition to the literature.
— Choice Reviews
Munoz's book is undoubtedly a significant contribution to our understanding of the 'psychocultural sediments' hidden in Mario Vargas Llosa's writing.
— World Literature Today
Munoz incorporates much interesting detail and analysis into the work.
— British Bulletin of Publications on Latin America, the Caribbean, Portugal and Spain
Munoz has written an important study de-mystifying one of the sacred cows of Euro-Latin American literature while acknowledging his storytelling ability. Munoz's brilliant de-construction of Vargas Llosa's personal confession and self-affirmation and his relocation of the writer as a European-based mestizo is worth the price of the book.
— James Petras, Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University