The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and 'Les Miserables'

MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

ISBN 10: 0691131112 / ISBN 13: 9780691131115

Editore: Princeton University Press April 2007, 2007

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• Titolo: The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and 'Les Miserables'
• Editore: Princeton University Press April 2007
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0691131112
• ISBN 13: 9780691131115
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: New
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Essays, Criticism & Memoir

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Riassunto

One of the world's great Latin American novelists helps readers appreciate the incredible ambition, power, and beauty of Victor Hugo's masterpiece in an incisive analysis of one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century.

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Mario Vargas Llosa is a prolific novelist and essayist whose literary criticism includes A Writer's Reality, Letters to a Young Novelist, and studies of Flaubert and Gabriel García Márquez.. One of his books of essays, Making Waves (Penguin), won the National Book Critics Circle Award. His novels include Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto, and The Feast of the Goat. Born in Peru, he now divides his time among Lima, London, and Madrid.