"Tiempos recios" is a historical novel by Mario Vargas Llosa set in the 1950s in Guatemala during... more "Tiempos recios" is a historical novel by Mario Vargas Llosa set in the 1950s in Guatemala during the Arbenz regime, which was overthrown with the complicity of the USA government. In this article the novel is analysed and assessed through the lens of the English historical novelist Hilary Mantel and Vargas Llosa's "Letters to a Young Novelist".
The centenary of the death of Ricardo Palma (1833-1919) is a propitious moment to critique his va... more The centenary of the death of Ricardo Palma (1833-1919) is a propitious moment to critique his vast, monumental oeuvre. After a brief and turbulent political career, Palma became a full-time man of letters: librarian, journalist, poet, dramatist, historian, critic, linguist and lexicographer. However, his fame and reputation, both inside and outside Peru, rest principally on his Tradiciones peruanas, short, lively prose compositions about Peru, its people, its history and its culture in the broadest sense of the term. They range from the Incas, the Conquest and early Colony to the Colony of the Viceroys, the Wars of Independence and the Republic-over 550 compositions spanning approximately from the late twelfth century to the tail-end of the nineteenth century. However, only a handful were set in Pre-Columbian times and just over one hundred in the Independence and Republican periods in the nineteenth century. The bulk of the Tradiciones take place during the colonial era. Published between 1872 and 1918, the Tradiciones consist of eleven volumes, which Palma called Series. Additionally, probably between 1901-03, he wrote a collection entitled Tradiciones en salsa verde, which remained unpublished until 1973 because they were considered too bawdy for general consumption. Palma himself was rather modest about the literary qualities of the Tradiciones, referring to them ironically as a "festiva cháchara" and characterising himself as a "borroneador de papel" and a wielder of a "pluma baladí" and a "gárrula pluma". Festive in tone many of them are, but he is certainly not a trifling and garrulous scribbler. Palma is generally regarded as ranking alongside the Inca Garcilaso
Marie Arana has attained an international reputation for her publications in a variety of genres-... more Marie Arana has attained an international reputation for her publications in a variety of genres-journalism, literary criticism, biography, historical and political essays, novels and life writing. She is also an engaging lecturer and interviewee. Although she was already well-known by national and international readers of the Washington Post for her reviews, she was hailed as a literary voice in her own right (or, to use John Lennon's pun, in her own "write") for American Chica (2001). In this carefully constructed book of ten chapters with bilingual headings plus a Prologue and Epilogue, Arana recreates, with disarming candour and in captivating prose, a colourful, peripatetic, bicultural childhood from her birth in Lima in 1949 to Junior High in New Jersey in the early 1960s. Her father Jorge, a brilliant engineer from metropolitan Lima, and her mother Marie, a talented American musician from the prairies of Wyoming, never felt at home in one another's country; they travelled periodically (together or alone) from one to the other, until eventually, while remaining married, the father worked for ever longer periods in Peru and the mother lived in the USA with their children, Vicky, George and Marie. The book opens with the four year old Spanish-speaking Marie looking out of her bedroom window in the sugar hacienda of Cartavio in northern Peru and ends at the turn of the twenty first century with the adult, successful, twice married Marie sitting on her porch in her Washington home,
Given the extraordinary circumstances confronting us in a world profoundly unsettled by the advan... more Given the extraordinary circumstances confronting us in a world profoundly unsettled by the advances of globalisation in all walks of life, and by the reactions provoked by this process, it may perhaps not be inappropriate to reflect upon how the growing interdependence among nations will affect cultural life. This interdependence is derived from the internationalisation of communications, the economy, ideas and technologies. A certain degree of perplexity and a number of prejudices surround this question. It may be worthwhile to dispel them. However, first of all it is essential to have a clear idea of what it is we are talking about when we utter the word 'culture'. For an anthropologist, this word, with its agrarian overtones, merely indicates a network of practices, ways, customs and beliefs comprising what is most representative of a particular people. This includes the language used by the inhabitants to communicate with each other, their food and the sports they play, and also their habits, gods, demons and every kind of ghost and spirit. But this conception of 'culture' is so vast that, because of its very all-inclusiveness, it turns out to be imprecise. Its boundaries are simply too vague. It may be more convenient to condense this notion of 'culture', restricting it exclusively to that spiritual dimension of human life where knowledge and beliefs ideas and myths merge into each other. This offers us a perspective that allows us to comprehend the world in a particular way, to take our place in it with a minimal degree of confidence and security, and to be able to relate to things and to our fellow human beings in a precise way. The further back we go in time, the fewer are the common denominators shared by cultures and the greater the specific characteristics that separate them and set them at odds. For this reason, in Antiquity, in that archipelago of self-absorbed, isolated islands that was the world, mistrust, hatred and war
Intellectum valde ama. Ama intensamente la inteligencia: homenaje al Profesor Octavio Uña Juárez, Catedrático de Sociología y Filosofía, escritor y poeta, Vol. 1, 2019, ISBN 978-84-09-14629-1, págs. 127-128, 2019
is a Doctoral Candidate at UCLA specializing in Colonial Spanish American Literature. She is curr... more is a Doctoral Candidate at UCLA specializing in Colonial Spanish American Literature. She is currently writing her disserta tion on Francisco de Vitoria 's lectures about the Indi¿ins of the New World. She is pcirt of the editorial board of Mester.
Mario Vargas Llosa: Literatura, Art, and Goya's Ghost The relatíonship between the \'erbal and th... more Mario Vargas Llosa: Literatura, Art, and Goya's Ghost The relatíonship between the \'erbal and the pictorial-that is, between the written word and its \'isual representation, has exercised a particular fascination upon writers and ¿irtists throughout the ages. This nexus has operated both ways: artists have been fascinated by the manner in which writers manipúlate words, syntax and style to fashion new verbal realities (novéis, poems, plays), while writers for their part have succumbed to the allure of artists who utilise paint, ink, acid or crayons to créate new \'isual realities. Examples of this mutual attraction and occasional cross-fertilisation between artists and writers abound. Perhaps no aesthetic movement illustrates the symbiosis between literature and art more consistently and strikingly than fin ãc siède French svmboUsm through its premise that an idea could be expressed through form, the word orobjectrepresented beingnomore thím a sign to open up the pri\'ate world of the imagination. Thus, symbolist poets like Mallarmé, Verlaine and Rimbaud had their counterparts in painters like Redon, Moreau, Rops and Ensor-a spiritucd bond between the verbal and the plástic arts that has inspired exhibitions in importantmuseums,galleries andlibraries in cities as far apart as Melboume and Madrid.Ŵ ith respect to the Hispímic world, it is well-known that Sah ador Dalí and Federico García Lorca exercised considerable creative intluence upon each other, while Dali also produced a series of one hundred wood engravings illustrating Dante's The Divine Comedi/. The early novéis of the Spanish Nobel Prize winner for literature, Camilo José Cela, were influenced by the power and the passion of Picasso's Guemica (1937), whose tortured images of mayhem in tum echo the scenes of murder cind mutilation in La familia de Pascual Duarte. Another celebrated case is that of Gustaphe Doré (1833-83), a talented French iUustrator, and Miguel de Cervantes. Doré is remembered chiefly for his classic series of lithographs illustrating the dreams and follies of the Knight Errant of La Mancha. In the Hispanic world El ingeiíioso hidalgo Don Quixote de La Mancha has come out in more editions thcm any book other than the Bible, and no book of illustrations is more revered than El Quijote de Gustavo Doré. Aparticulañy interesting example is that of Littlc Birds, bv Anais Nin, a celebrated erotic writer of Spanish, Cuban French and Danish descent.
... deadlock" (28). The very merits of Souza's Guillermo Cabrera Infante: Two Islands, ... more ... deadlock" (28). The very merits of Souza's Guillermo Cabrera Infante: Two Islands, Many Worlds therefore also constitute some of its perils and shortcomings. Two ... Vargas Llosa. By Jean O'Bryan-Knight. Amsterdam: 1995. 145 pages. Jean ...
... Specular narratives : critical perspectives on Carlos Fuentes, Juan Goytisolo, Mario Vargas L... more ... Specular narratives : critical perspectives on Carlos Fuentes, Juan Goytisolo, Mario Vargas LLosa. Información General. Autores: Roy C. Boland ( coord. ... 216-229. Ni de derecha ni de izquierda: la visión moral en las obras de Mario Vargas Llosa. Roy C. Boland. págs. 230-240. ...
... CHRONOLOGY xix 1967 General Fidel Sanchez Hernandez becomes president of El Sal-vador 1969 So... more ... CHRONOLOGY xix 1967 General Fidel Sanchez Hernandez becomes president of El Sal-vador 1969 Soccer War between El Salvador and Honduras 1972 Colonel Arturo Armando Molina wins rigged presidential elec-tions; Jose Napole6n Duarte is tortured and exiled 1975 ...
Mario Vargas Llosa es un escritor cosmopolita e internacional. Los escenarios de sus obras se mud... more Mario Vargas Llosa es un escritor cosmopolita e internacional. Los escenarios de sus obras se mudan desde el Peru hasta Tahiti, desde Dublin hasta el Putumayo, desde Miraflores hasta Santo Domingo, desde Loreto hasta el Congo, desde el puerto de Heligoland en Alemania hasta Canudos, en el sertao brasileno. Una gran cantidad de su produccion literaria ha sido traducida a multiples lenguas, entre ellas el sueco, croata, arabe, chino, malayo y cingales. Aun en los rincones mas alejados del planeta los amantes de la literatura estan acostumbrados a leer el nombre, ver la imagen, o escuchar la voz de este trotamundos de la palabra y de las ideas.
"Tiempos recios" is a historical novel by Mario Vargas Llosa set in the 1950s in Guatemala during... more "Tiempos recios" is a historical novel by Mario Vargas Llosa set in the 1950s in Guatemala during the Arbenz regime, which was overthrown with the complicity of the USA government. In this article the novel is analysed and assessed through the lens of the English historical novelist Hilary Mantel and Vargas Llosa's "Letters to a Young Novelist".
The centenary of the death of Ricardo Palma (1833-1919) is a propitious moment to critique his va... more The centenary of the death of Ricardo Palma (1833-1919) is a propitious moment to critique his vast, monumental oeuvre. After a brief and turbulent political career, Palma became a full-time man of letters: librarian, journalist, poet, dramatist, historian, critic, linguist and lexicographer. However, his fame and reputation, both inside and outside Peru, rest principally on his Tradiciones peruanas, short, lively prose compositions about Peru, its people, its history and its culture in the broadest sense of the term. They range from the Incas, the Conquest and early Colony to the Colony of the Viceroys, the Wars of Independence and the Republic-over 550 compositions spanning approximately from the late twelfth century to the tail-end of the nineteenth century. However, only a handful were set in Pre-Columbian times and just over one hundred in the Independence and Republican periods in the nineteenth century. The bulk of the Tradiciones take place during the colonial era. Published between 1872 and 1918, the Tradiciones consist of eleven volumes, which Palma called Series. Additionally, probably between 1901-03, he wrote a collection entitled Tradiciones en salsa verde, which remained unpublished until 1973 because they were considered too bawdy for general consumption. Palma himself was rather modest about the literary qualities of the Tradiciones, referring to them ironically as a "festiva cháchara" and characterising himself as a "borroneador de papel" and a wielder of a "pluma baladí" and a "gárrula pluma". Festive in tone many of them are, but he is certainly not a trifling and garrulous scribbler. Palma is generally regarded as ranking alongside the Inca Garcilaso
Marie Arana has attained an international reputation for her publications in a variety of genres-... more Marie Arana has attained an international reputation for her publications in a variety of genres-journalism, literary criticism, biography, historical and political essays, novels and life writing. She is also an engaging lecturer and interviewee. Although she was already well-known by national and international readers of the Washington Post for her reviews, she was hailed as a literary voice in her own right (or, to use John Lennon's pun, in her own "write") for American Chica (2001). In this carefully constructed book of ten chapters with bilingual headings plus a Prologue and Epilogue, Arana recreates, with disarming candour and in captivating prose, a colourful, peripatetic, bicultural childhood from her birth in Lima in 1949 to Junior High in New Jersey in the early 1960s. Her father Jorge, a brilliant engineer from metropolitan Lima, and her mother Marie, a talented American musician from the prairies of Wyoming, never felt at home in one another's country; they travelled periodically (together or alone) from one to the other, until eventually, while remaining married, the father worked for ever longer periods in Peru and the mother lived in the USA with their children, Vicky, George and Marie. The book opens with the four year old Spanish-speaking Marie looking out of her bedroom window in the sugar hacienda of Cartavio in northern Peru and ends at the turn of the twenty first century with the adult, successful, twice married Marie sitting on her porch in her Washington home,
Given the extraordinary circumstances confronting us in a world profoundly unsettled by the advan... more Given the extraordinary circumstances confronting us in a world profoundly unsettled by the advances of globalisation in all walks of life, and by the reactions provoked by this process, it may perhaps not be inappropriate to reflect upon how the growing interdependence among nations will affect cultural life. This interdependence is derived from the internationalisation of communications, the economy, ideas and technologies. A certain degree of perplexity and a number of prejudices surround this question. It may be worthwhile to dispel them. However, first of all it is essential to have a clear idea of what it is we are talking about when we utter the word 'culture'. For an anthropologist, this word, with its agrarian overtones, merely indicates a network of practices, ways, customs and beliefs comprising what is most representative of a particular people. This includes the language used by the inhabitants to communicate with each other, their food and the sports they play, and also their habits, gods, demons and every kind of ghost and spirit. But this conception of 'culture' is so vast that, because of its very all-inclusiveness, it turns out to be imprecise. Its boundaries are simply too vague. It may be more convenient to condense this notion of 'culture', restricting it exclusively to that spiritual dimension of human life where knowledge and beliefs ideas and myths merge into each other. This offers us a perspective that allows us to comprehend the world in a particular way, to take our place in it with a minimal degree of confidence and security, and to be able to relate to things and to our fellow human beings in a precise way. The further back we go in time, the fewer are the common denominators shared by cultures and the greater the specific characteristics that separate them and set them at odds. For this reason, in Antiquity, in that archipelago of self-absorbed, isolated islands that was the world, mistrust, hatred and war
Intellectum valde ama. Ama intensamente la inteligencia: homenaje al Profesor Octavio Uña Juárez, Catedrático de Sociología y Filosofía, escritor y poeta, Vol. 1, 2019, ISBN 978-84-09-14629-1, págs. 127-128, 2019
is a Doctoral Candidate at UCLA specializing in Colonial Spanish American Literature. She is curr... more is a Doctoral Candidate at UCLA specializing in Colonial Spanish American Literature. She is currently writing her disserta tion on Francisco de Vitoria 's lectures about the Indi¿ins of the New World. She is pcirt of the editorial board of Mester.
Mario Vargas Llosa: Literatura, Art, and Goya's Ghost The relatíonship between the \'erbal and th... more Mario Vargas Llosa: Literatura, Art, and Goya's Ghost The relatíonship between the \'erbal and the pictorial-that is, between the written word and its \'isual representation, has exercised a particular fascination upon writers and ¿irtists throughout the ages. This nexus has operated both ways: artists have been fascinated by the manner in which writers manipúlate words, syntax and style to fashion new verbal realities (novéis, poems, plays), while writers for their part have succumbed to the allure of artists who utilise paint, ink, acid or crayons to créate new \'isual realities. Examples of this mutual attraction and occasional cross-fertilisation between artists and writers abound. Perhaps no aesthetic movement illustrates the symbiosis between literature and art more consistently and strikingly than fin ãc siède French svmboUsm through its premise that an idea could be expressed through form, the word orobjectrepresented beingnomore thím a sign to open up the pri\'ate world of the imagination. Thus, symbolist poets like Mallarmé, Verlaine and Rimbaud had their counterparts in painters like Redon, Moreau, Rops and Ensor-a spiritucd bond between the verbal and the plástic arts that has inspired exhibitions in importantmuseums,galleries andlibraries in cities as far apart as Melboume and Madrid.Ŵ ith respect to the Hispímic world, it is well-known that Sah ador Dalí and Federico García Lorca exercised considerable creative intluence upon each other, while Dali also produced a series of one hundred wood engravings illustrating Dante's The Divine Comedi/. The early novéis of the Spanish Nobel Prize winner for literature, Camilo José Cela, were influenced by the power and the passion of Picasso's Guemica (1937), whose tortured images of mayhem in tum echo the scenes of murder cind mutilation in La familia de Pascual Duarte. Another celebrated case is that of Gustaphe Doré (1833-83), a talented French iUustrator, and Miguel de Cervantes. Doré is remembered chiefly for his classic series of lithographs illustrating the dreams and follies of the Knight Errant of La Mancha. In the Hispanic world El ingeiíioso hidalgo Don Quixote de La Mancha has come out in more editions thcm any book other than the Bible, and no book of illustrations is more revered than El Quijote de Gustavo Doré. Aparticulañy interesting example is that of Littlc Birds, bv Anais Nin, a celebrated erotic writer of Spanish, Cuban French and Danish descent.
... deadlock" (28). The very merits of Souza's Guillermo Cabrera Infante: Two Islands, ... more ... deadlock" (28). The very merits of Souza's Guillermo Cabrera Infante: Two Islands, Many Worlds therefore also constitute some of its perils and shortcomings. Two ... Vargas Llosa. By Jean O'Bryan-Knight. Amsterdam: 1995. 145 pages. Jean ...
... Specular narratives : critical perspectives on Carlos Fuentes, Juan Goytisolo, Mario Vargas L... more ... Specular narratives : critical perspectives on Carlos Fuentes, Juan Goytisolo, Mario Vargas LLosa. Información General. Autores: Roy C. Boland ( coord. ... 216-229. Ni de derecha ni de izquierda: la visión moral en las obras de Mario Vargas Llosa. Roy C. Boland. págs. 230-240. ...
... CHRONOLOGY xix 1967 General Fidel Sanchez Hernandez becomes president of El Sal-vador 1969 So... more ... CHRONOLOGY xix 1967 General Fidel Sanchez Hernandez becomes president of El Sal-vador 1969 Soccer War between El Salvador and Honduras 1972 Colonel Arturo Armando Molina wins rigged presidential elec-tions; Jose Napole6n Duarte is tortured and exiled 1975 ...
Mario Vargas Llosa es un escritor cosmopolita e internacional. Los escenarios de sus obras se mud... more Mario Vargas Llosa es un escritor cosmopolita e internacional. Los escenarios de sus obras se mudan desde el Peru hasta Tahiti, desde Dublin hasta el Putumayo, desde Miraflores hasta Santo Domingo, desde Loreto hasta el Congo, desde el puerto de Heligoland en Alemania hasta Canudos, en el sertao brasileno. Una gran cantidad de su produccion literaria ha sido traducida a multiples lenguas, entre ellas el sueco, croata, arabe, chino, malayo y cingales. Aun en los rincones mas alejados del planeta los amantes de la literatura estan acostumbrados a leer el nombre, ver la imagen, o escuchar la voz de este trotamundos de la palabra y de las ideas.
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