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Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers. Drawing on the stories and novels of writers from around the globe—Borges, Bierce, Céline, Cortázar, Faulkner, Kafka, Robbe-Grillet—he lays bare the inner workings of... read more
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DEAR FRIEND, I was moved by your letter because in it I saw myself at fourteen or fifteen, in gray Lima under the dictatorship of General Odria, aflame with the desire to one day become a writer yet disheartened because I didn't know what steps to take, how to begin channeling my ambition, which I experience as an urgent prompting, into the creation of real works; how to write stories that would dazzle my readers as I had been dazzled by the writers I was beginning to install in my personal pantheon: Faulkner, Hemingway, Malraux, Dos Passos, Camus, Sartre.
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- Mario Vargas Llosa (Author)
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Original Language: Spanish
Publisher: Editorial Planeta
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 8408022180
Page Count: 157
Publisher: Editorial Planeta
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 8408022180
Page Count: 157
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- Dewey: 808.3
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