Three Plays: The Young Lady from Tacna, Kathie and the Hippopotamus, La Chunga - Tapa dura

Three Plays

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Descripción hardcover. Condición: 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. Nº de ref. del artículo: z15419

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