A Writer's Reality

By Mario Vargas Llosa

Book Overview

La vida es una y tiene l?mites. La lectura de novelas los revienta y lo que era una se convierte en mil, infinitas. ?se es el mayor poder de la literatura y este libro nos hace participar de ?l.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395622344
• ISBN13: 9780395622346
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Mariner Books / Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Essays, a guide, and the truth of lies ....

"La verdad de las mentiras" contains many essays written by Vargas Llosa, regarding books that made a permanent impression on him. For example, he wrote essays on "The heart of darkness" (Joseph Conrad), "Dubliners" (James Joyce), "Manhattan Transfer" (John Dos Passos), "Mrs. Dalloway" (Virginia Woolf), "The great Gatsby" (F. S. Fitzgerald), "Nadja" (André Breton), "The human condition" (André Malraux), "Animal farm" (George Orwell), "Doctor Zhivago" (B. Pasternak), and many more...Not only are those essays very interesting to read, due to the fact that his prose is incredibly fluent, but they also allow you to know something about the books you haven't managed to read yet, turning this book into an useful guide :)"La verdad de las mentiras " ("The truth of lies") includes an introductory essay, where Vargas Llosas reflects on literature, life, and what kind of truth can be found in the "lies" that authors like him write. He says, for example, that "Una ficción lograda encarna la subjetividad de una época y por eso las novelas, aunque cotejadas con la historia mientan, nos comunican unas verdades huidizas y evanescentes que escapan siempre a los descriptores científicos de la realidad". If you can, read this book. It's well worth it :)Belén

A writer's reality is the hard way but it is still the best

To be an author is hard, one strives for originality. That's what I found in a "Writer's reality," an author who is original in his stories yet the ideas are still there. Peru, I found has a lot of problems or everyday things that any author can just grab and make a story about, the only thing there is is originality. But what is it really? The process is the original way the author strives to make the story unique and perfect, thought it made not sound real because fiction is not real,is a still his work(original work). So to any writer that wishes to understand how it worked for Mario Vargas, I advise you to read this book because you, like me might be striving for perfection and originality but if you read this book you will find that if Mario Vargaz did it, then we can do it too. Finish the story and still be original, no matter what inspire or who inspire your idea.