The Art of Memory in Garcia Marquez and Vargas Llosa
1990; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 105; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2905298
ISSN1080-6598
Autores Tópico(s)Basque language and culture studies
ResumoIn 1971 Mario Vargas Llosa published a book on Gabriel Garcia Marquez which he subtitled historia de un deicidio, the history of a deicide. It was an important book for Garcia Marquez studies because it collected, in one place and with unusual thoroughness, scores of anecdotes about Garcia Matrquez and interviews by him; because it presented a good deal of biographical information; because it discussed in detail and with intelligence much of Garcia Marquez's fiction; because it advanced a comprehensive thesis about Garcia Mairquez's creativity; and because, finally, it revealed as much about Vargas Llosa as it did about Garcia Matrquez. That self-revelation is contained in the main thesis of Vargas Llosa's book:
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