The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa

Efraín Kristal is Professor and Chair in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. John King is Professor of Comparative American Studies at the University of Warwick.

• Chronology; Introduction Efraín Kristal and John King; 1. Reality, rebellion, and the paradox of power: an overview of Mario Vargas Llosa's literary themes Alonso Cueto; 2. The early novels Gerald Martin; 3. The total novel and the novella Efraín Kristal; 4. Humour and irony Michael Wood; 5. The historical novel Juan E. de Castro and Nicholas Birns; 6. Innocence and corruption Fiona Mackintosh; 7. The political novels Deborah Cohn; 8. The erotic novels Roy C. Boland; 9. The dictator novel Clive Griffin; 10. From Utopia to reconciliation Efraín Kristal; 11. The essays John King; 12. The memoir Kelly Austin; 13. The plays Evelyn Fishburn; 14. Film and the novels Carolina Sitnisky; 15. The interview Efraín Kristal and John King with Mario Vargas Llosa; Further reading; Index.

'The scope and depth of the essays, only hinted at here, make this book an indispensable source for future studies of Vargas Llosa as a fiction writer and as one of the most important intellectuals of our time.' Malva E. Filer, Literature and Arts of the Americas