Three Plays: The Young Lady from Tacna, Kathie and the Hippopotamus, La Chunga - Hardcover
A collection of Vargas Llosa's plays exploring the central theme of his work - how and why stories come into being and the relationship between fact and fiction. Vargas Llosa is the author of the novels "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter" and "The War of the End of the World".
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With novels including The War of the End of the World, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto and The Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargas Llosa has established an international reputation as one of the Latin America's most important authors.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Spanish
Original Language: Spanish
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- PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0809093677
- ISBN 13 9780809093670
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages217
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Three Plays
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. 1st edition. New York. 1990. Noonday Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0809093677. Translated from the Spanish by David Graham-Young. 217 pages. hardcover. keywords: Drama Translated Peru Latin America Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Mario Vargas Llosa is a novelist of international stature. He is also the author of three highly successful plays-The Young Lady from Tacna, Kathie and the Hippopotamus and La Chunga -here collected for the first time in new translations by David Graham-Young. Each of these plays explores the central theme of Mario Vargas Llosa's work-how and why stories come into being, and the relationship of fact to fiction-and is an indispensable addition to our understanding of his work as a whole. MARIO VARGA5 LLO5A was born in Peru in 1936; he had a scholarship to study in Madrid in 1958 and went on to live in Paris, His first story collection, The Cubs and Other Stories, was published in 1959. Vargas Llosa's reputation grew with the appearance of The Time of the Hero in 1963, though the Peruvian military publicly burned a thousand copies of the book. He continued to live abroad until 1986, returning to Lima just before the restoration of democratic rule. Always politically outspoken, Mario Vargas Llosa served as president of PEN, an international organization which champions the rights of journalists and authors, from 1976 to 1979. He headed the commission appointed by the Peruvian government to investigate the massacre of eight journalists in the Andes in 1983. Mario Vargas Llosa has produced critical studies of Garcia Márquez, Flaubert, Sartre, and Camus, as well as of the roots of contemporary fiction, He has received virtually every important international literary award for his fiction. inventory #15419. Seller Inventory # z15419
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THREE PLAYS: The Young Lady from Tacna, Kathie and the Hippopotamus, La Chunga
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ISBN 13: 9780809093670
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First Edition. The first American edition, translated by David Graham-Young. Small octavo. Original black cloth binding, with white titles. Typical mild toning to the contents; else near fine in a clean and bright dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 71308
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