Name: El fuego de la imaginación (in Spanish)
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Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
ISBN: 9786073823586

portada El fuego de la imaginación (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mario Vargas Llosa

Publisher

Alfaguara

Year

2022

Language

Spanish

Pages

792

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

24.1x15x4.1 cm

Weight

0.77 kg.

ISBN13

9786073823586

Edited in

México

Synopsis "El fuego de la imaginación (in Spanish)"

La literatura, la escena, el cine y el arte a través de los ojos del Premio Nobel de Literatura. "Lo que sigue de aquí en adelante son las reflexiones maduradas a lo largo de una vida dedicada a la lectura de novelas, a la contemplación del arte, del teatro y del cine. No sólo el testimonio entusiasta de intensas horas de placer o de digestiones felices después de haber leído o visto los frutos de la fantasía. También es una aproximación comprensiva a la condición humana, a su mundo subjetivo ―sus valores, conflictos, deseos, anhelos y preocupaciones― y a la manera en que han dejado su huella en la historia." ―del prólogo de Carlos Granés. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Literature, the stage, films, and art seen through the eyes of the Nobel laureate. "What comes next from here on out are reflections that matured throughout a lifetime dedicated to the reading of novels, the contemplation of art, theater, and cinema. It is not only the enthusiastic testimony of intense hours of pleasure or merry digestions after reading or watching the fruit of fantasy. It is also a comprehensive approximation to the human condition, to its subjective world, its values, conflicts, desires, yearnings, and worries, and the way they have left their mark in history." --from the prologue by Carlos Granés

Mario Vargas Llosa

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Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa (Arequipa, March 28, 1936), known as Mario Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa, is a Peruvian writer who also holds Spanish nationality since 1993 and Dominican nationality since June 2022. Considered one of the most important contemporary novelists and essayists, his works have received numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature 2010, the Cervantes Prize 1994 —considered the most important in the Spanish language—, the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature 1986, the Biblioteca Breve Prize 1962, the Rómulo Gallegos Prize 1967, and the Planeta Prize 1993, among others. Alongside Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, and Carlos Fuentes, he is one of the central figures of the Latin American boom

He rose to fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (1963), The Green House (1966), and Conversation in the Cathedral (1969). He continued to prolifically cultivate various literary genres, such as essays, articles, and theater. Several of his works have been adapted into films and television. Most of his novels are set in Peru and explore his views on Peruvian society; however, in The War of the End of the World (1981), The Feast of the Goat (2000), and The Dream of the Celt (2010) he sets his plots in other countries.

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