Introduction / Raquel Chang-Rodríguez and Carlos Riobó -- In conversation with the 2010 Nobel Laureate. Genesis and evolution of Captain Pantoja and the Special Services / Mario Vargas Llosa -- The return of the monsters / Mario Vargas Llosa -- From...
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Introduction / Raquel Chang-Rodríguez and Carlos Riobó -- In conversation with the 2010 Nobel Laureate. Genesis and evolution of Captain Pantoja and the Special Services / Mario Vargas Llosa -- The return of the monsters / Mario Vargas Llosa -- From Miguel de Cervantes to César Moro / Mario Vargas Llosa and Alonso Cueto -- Life and literature. Discreet and injudicious heroes in the novels of Mario Vargas Llosa / Efraín Kristal -- A life worthy of a novel / J.J. Armas Marcelo -- Vargas Llosa and Cervantes : Modern knights / Alonso Cueto -- History, authority, and ideology. A poetics of freedom / Carlos Franz -- The eye of the beholder / Mónica Lavín -- Historical fact/historical fiction in The Feast of the Goat / Ángel L. Estévez, -- Other tales. The Storyteller : Narrating Latin America from Europe / Carlos Riobó -- Rubén Darío through Mario Vargas Llosa's looking glass / Raquel Chang-Rodríguez -- Mario Vargas Llosa at the New York Public Library / Robert Dumont. "This collection of essays associated with Mario Vargas Llosa's visits to the City College of New York offers readers an opportunity to learn about his body of work through his own perspective and those of key fiction writers and literary critics"--