Mario Vargas Llosa

Seven Stories from Spanish America - BCP Spanish Texts Mario Vargas Llosa New edition

Publisher Marketing: In the great flowering of Latin American literature over the last three decades, the short story has played a key role. Some of the celebrated masters of the novel have excelled in this more succinct and accessible form. This is true of Carpentier, Rulfo, Cortazar, Garcia Marquez and the other authors of the seven stories gathered here. Graded according to difficulty, these stories offer a brilliant insight into Spanish America. They range over the extent of its geography, from Mexico and the Caribbean to the Southern Cone, and probe its varied and complex societies. The seven short stories are: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "La prodigiosa tarde de Baltazar," Julio Cortazar's "La isla a mediodia," Jorge Edwards' "La experiencia," Juan Rulfo's "Diles que no me maten," Mario Beneditti's "Los novios," Augusto Roa Bastos' "El baldio" and Alejo Carpentier's "Viaje a la semilla." Part of the "Bristol Classical Press" series of Spanish texts, this is a collection of stories from Spanish America. The series is designed to meet the needs of the fast-growing A Level and undergraduate market for texts in the Spanish language. Each text comes with English notes and vocabulary, and with an introduction by an editor with an expert knowledge both of the work and of its literary and cultural context.

Contributor Bio:  Vargas Llosa, Mario Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Peru in 1936. He has written thirteen novels and five plays including Kathie and the Hippoptomus, La Chunga, and Nice Eyes, Ugly Paintings. Contributor Bio:  Brotherston, Gordon Edward Dorn is a professor in the Creative Writing/English department at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has been the recipient of a Fullbright Lectureship at the University of Essex, a D. H. Lawrence Fellowship, an American Book Award, and an American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. Gordon Brotherston is a research professor at the University of Essex and Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington. He helped to set up the Latin American program at the University of Essex in 1965 and has devoted his interest to the indigenous cultures which flourished for thousands of years before Columbus. He has been awarded fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, the British Academy, and the Guggenheim Foundation.