Part 1 Preface Part 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 1. On Literature Chapter 4 2. Daemons and the Total Novel Chapter 5 3. On Truthtelling Chapter 6 4. A Writer's Morality Chapter 7 5. Civilization and Barbarism Chapter 8 6. Politics and Literature Chapter 9 7. Writer and Politico Chapter 10 8. History and Freedom Chapter 11 9. Memory Chapter 12 10. The Storyteller Chapter 13 11. Two Foxes of Peru Part 14 Epilogue Part 15 Notes Part 16 Selected Bibliography Part 17 Index Part 18 About the Author
Braulio Mu-oz is professor of sociology at Swarthmore College.
Against these times of post-modern relativism, Vargas Llosa
embodies the need for a master narative, a single view, a whole
encompassing truth. But in . . . this book, Braulio Munoz, with
Kant and Derrida by his side, looks the man in the eye and the rest
is literature—which amounts to a lively, even fascinating
reading.
*Julio Ortega, Brown University*
An invaluable addition to the literature.
*CHOICE*
Munoz's book is undoubtedly a significant contribution to our
understanding of the 'psychocultural sediments' hidden in Mario
Vargas Llosa's writing.
*World Literature Today*
Munoz incorporates much interesting detail and analysis into the
work.
*British Bulletin of Publications on Latin America, the Caribbean,
Portugal and Spain*
Munoz has written an important study de-mystifying one of the
sacred cows of Euro-Latin American literature while acknowledging
his storytelling ability. Munoz's brilliant de-construction of
Vargas Llosa's personal confession and self-affirmation and his
relocation of the writer as a European-based mestizo is worth the
price of the book.
*James Petras, Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University*
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