MARIO VARGAS LLOSA: A LIFE
Book ID/图书代码： 02000011B46620
English Summary/英文概要： The first comprehensive biography of the brilliant author of Conversation in the Cathedral, Aunt Julia and the Script-Writer and The Feast of the Goat, who ran for the presidency of Peru in 1990 and in 2010 won a Nobel Prize for Literature. Mario Vargas llosa is one of the world’s great writers of the past fifty years. he is almost unique among latin american novelists in the sense that he is on the right of the political spectrum: ideologically his views are liberal in political terms and neo-liberal in economic terms. this undoubtedly connects in part to the
fact that he is not in any meaningful sense a ‘magical realist’ writer (as so many latin american novelists of his generation are) but, rather, a classical ‘realist’ in the tradition of balzac, Flaubert and – rather more surprisingly – Faulkner.
The fabled ‘boom’ of the latin american novel in the 1960s centred on four writers: Julio cortázar of argentina, carlos Fuentes of mexico, Gabriel García márquez of colombia, and mario Vargas llosa of Peru. Vargas llosa was the youngest of these writers by more than a decade and he was also a prodigy: he had published three major best-selling novels by the age of thirty, all of them critically acclaimed. had he stopped writing then he would still today be one of the greatest novelists in latin american history.
Like García márquez, Vargas llosa was profoundly committed to politics. the two men met in the 1960s and even though it was known that they had come to disagree sharply about the cuban Revolution (1959), the most important event in latin america since the mexican Revolution of 1910, it came as a great surprise – indeed, a sensation – when Vargas llosa publicly felled García márquez with a right hook at a movie premiere in mexico city in 1976. Following that event, still the subject of unceasing press speculation to the present day, the two men have never spoken again.
Handsome, elegant and debonair, Vargas llosa is the most polite and considerate of men at a personal level; yet he has alienated many of his friends and colleagues over the course of a long career. however, no one meeting him for the first time without knowing who he was would dream that this gentleman could be the author of several genuinely shocking books.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 马利欧·巴尔加斯·尤萨在2010年的诺贝尔获奖感言中将文学描述为「对生活不足的抗议」，他认为文学不仅可以帮助逃避现实，还可以改变现实。尽管这位秘鲁诺贝尔奖得主上个月以 89 岁高龄去世，但他的思想仍然具有现实意义。他一生都是一位备受争议的作家和政治家，他留下的 50 多部作品体现了他对政治和文学密不可分的信念。
在本书书中，布鲁姆斯伯里出版社的作者、著名传记作家杰拉尔德·马丁记述了这位被许多人称为拉丁美洲最伟大的作家以及西班牙裔世界最具影响力的知识分子的一生。这是在获得阅览其所有手稿的特权后撰写的，这是第一本关于这位才华横溢的作家权威而全面的传记。
尤萨在诺贝尔获奖感言中说道：「活着是值得的，因为没有生命，我们就无法阅读或想象故事」——透过这本书，我们可以阅读和想象他一生中不可思议的故事。
荷黑·马利欧·佩德罗·巴尔加斯·尤萨，第一代巴尔加斯·略萨侯爵，拥有无与伦比的职业生涯，从 1990 年竞选秘鲁总统到 2010 年获得诺贝尔文学奖。他从未停止写作和旅行，当然也从未远离争议。尤萨英俊、优雅、温文尔雅，他的个人生活也充满了阴谋。这本引人入胜且富有洞察力的传记为了解尤萨的个人、文学和政治生活，以及他与同时代人（尤其是加夫列尔·加西亚·马尔克斯）的动荡关系提供了新的视角。
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About the Author/作者介绍： 杰拉尔德·马丁(GERALD MARTIN)是匹兹堡大学现代语言荣誉教授，曾任伊比利亚美洲文学国际研究所所长。杰拉尔德于 20 世纪 60 年代首次与巴尔加斯·略萨会面，之后获得了访问其档案的特权，他将近十年的细致研究积累和丰富的叙事热情融入了这本书。他的出版品包括《穿越迷宫：二十世纪拉丁美洲小说》和《加夫列尔·加西亚·马奎斯：一生》。他曾经造访或居住拉丁美洲所有国家以及法国、西班牙和美国，目前居住在英国汉普郡。
Gerald martin knows the man and the work well and will bring the same meticulous research, scrupulous attention to detail and narrative verve to bear on a life that holds equal fascination with that of his fellow nobel Prize winner Gabriel García márquez.
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