Letters to a Young Novelist, (Paperback)

from wrmjr66

Modeled on Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Llosa here invents a series of letters to describe his idea of the craft of writing novels. Though he claims to dislike Structuralism, his work reads a bit like a structuralist text, as it breaks apart the novel in order to talk about things like narrat...

from jasonlf

This short book by Mario Vargas Llosa is in the form of letters to an aspiring novelist. It covers all the standard elements of a novel like narration, plot, time, and characters. In the course of it, Vargas Llosa illuminatingly discusses a number of his favorite novels, from 19th Century classic...

from nosajeel

This short book by Mario Vargas Llosa is in the form of letters to an aspiring novelist. It covers all the standard elements of a novel like narration, plot, time, and characters. In the course of it, Vargas Llosa illuminatingly discusses a number of his favorite novels, from 19th Century classic...