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Title: The Storyteller : A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, Helen Lane ISBN: 0-312-42028-5 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 03 November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.54 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Well Written
Comment: This book weaves together the lives of a Peruvian man who goes to live with an ancient tribe in the Amazon and a college friend who is haunted by the thought of the tribes. It alternates between sections of the writer`s life and the stories told deep in the rainforest. At first these seem incoherent and leave the reader groping for something left out, but the last section of storytelling is lyrical, the best piece I have read for quite a while, and we finally understand.
The traslation is admirable, and the prose is descriptive and readable. I would reccommend this especially to those interested in Spanish culture or storytelling.
Rating: 5
Summary: Insight of storytelling, writing, and the human mind
Comment: I picked up this book at a used bookstore, intrigued with what I thought would be an interesting storyline: a modern man goes through a stunning transformation into that of a savage, seen from the viewpoint of an old friend staring at his picture in Florence, trying to imagine the journey his friend had taken upon himself, alone, scarred, and in the dense jungle of magic.
After the first few captivating pages (one of the best beginnings I have ever read), It became apparent that there was much more to this book than a story about a Peruvian academic and outsider becoming a Machiguenga. It is a story of a writer's obsession with his craft, and his seeking of a deeper meaning in stories, and his exhaustive search into these mysterious storytellers of the jungle, and how it will validate his own strange seeking in the world of words.
It is the story of an outsider, now a central member of an exclusive and ancient order, of the determination and resolve, ("that of a lunatic or a saint"), that drove him onward. It blends the academic intelligence of Borges and the magic of Marquez, but better, and with a fervor and intelligence that betrays an intellect to be reckoned with.
It is a masterpiece. Bravo Llosa.
Rating: 5
Summary: quilt of mirrors
Comment: Kafka and Joyce would've loved this multi-storied story. Taking us from Florence to Peru's urban and jungle life in a single bound, the author gives us a friend's devotion, and a people's insular lore. A perspective on perspectives, the book's rarified heights of awareness open vistas on storytelling as a cultural bloodstream: anti-establishment, subversive and yet nutrient-rich. Who, though, will follow in the storyteller's footsteps? Llosa is a mental emperor contemplating existence as a cockroach, a peruvian dreaming he's an innocent primitive, a sophisticate drinking expresso, dreaming of pristine jungle streams, and strains of stravinsky amid the confusion of birdsong. Llosa shows us the fly on the wall's complex view of the mind and the ingenuity and prerequisites of elemental humanity's endurance.
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Title: The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa, Mario Vargas Llosa ISBN: 0140262601 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Feast of the Goat: A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman ISBN: 0312420277 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 09 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: In Praise of the Stepmother: A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, Helen Lane ISBN: 0312421303 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa, Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman ISBN: 0140262156 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa, Mario Vargas Llosa ISBN: 0140248927 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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