The Reading Warehouse

Durante un semestre de 2015 Vargas Llosa imparti un curso en la Universidad de Princeton. En l convers con los alumnos sobre literatura y actualidad, e hizo, junto con ellos y con Rub n Gallo, director del Programa de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la universidad, un an lisis profundo de cinco de sus obras.

Este libro recoge estas conversaciones en las que el Nobel, con su brillantez acostumbrada, habla del oficio de escritor y de los retos a los que se enfrenta en la construcci n de sus novelas. Pero tambi n ofrece un an lisis del momento actual. Es especialmente conmovedora la charla con Philippe Lan on, periodista de Charlie Hebdo que sobrevivi al atentado islamista perpetrado contra el semanario sat rico en 2015.

Todo lo que los lectores quisieron preguntarle en alg n momento al Nobel peruano est en este libro.Una oportunidad sin igual de asistir a un curso magistral sobre literatura y realidad impartido por uno de los escritores m s reconocidos y valorados en todo el mundo.

Rub n Gallo es profesor de Lengua, Literatura y Civilizaci n de Espa a en la Universidad de Princeton. Es especialista en cultura latinoamericana y dirige el Programa de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la universidad.

Entre sus obras se encuentran Heterodoxos mexicanos: una antolog a dialogada (2006), Las artes de la ciudad: Ensayos sobre la cultura visual de la capital (2010), y Proust's Latin Americans (2014).

Mario Vargas Llosa(Arequipa, Per , 1936), premio Nobel de Literatura 2010. Es autor de piezas teatrales, estudios y ensayos (La org a perpetua, La verdad de las mentiras, La tentaci n de lo imposible, El viaje a la ficci n y La civilizaci n del espect culo), memorias (El pez en el agua), relatos y novelas: La ciudad y los perros, La casa verde, Conversaci n en La Catedral, Pantale n y las visitadoras, La t a Julia y el escribidor, La guerra del fin del mundo, Historia de Mayta, Qui n mat a Palomino Molero?, El hablador, Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto, La Fiesta del Chivo, El Para so en la otra esquina, Travesuras de la ni a mala, El sue o del celta, El h roe discreto, Cinco Esquinas, etc. Ha obtenido los m s importantes galardones literarios, entre ellos el Premio Cervantes, el Pr ncipe de Asturias, el PEN/ Nabokov y el Grinzane Cavour.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A Master Class about current events and the craft of a novelist by Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa.

During a semester in 2015 Vargas Llosa taught a course at Princeton University. In it he spoke with the students about literature and current affairs. Along with the students and with Rub n Gallo, director of Princeton's Latin American Studies Program, Vargas Llosa performed an in-depth analysis of five of his works.

This book gathers these conversations in which the Nobel Prize winner, with his habitual wisdom and brilliance, speaks of the craft of the writer and about challenges that he faces when in the process of creating his novels. But it also offers an analysis of current times. What is especially touching is the conversation with Philippe Lan on, a Charlie Hebdo journalist who survived the Islamist attack perpetrated against the satirical paper in 2015.

Everything that a reader may, at any point, have wanted to ask the Peruvian Nobel Prize winner is in this book. An unparalleled opportunity to experience a master class on literature and reality taught by one of the most recognized and valued writers in the world.

Ruben Gallo is a Professor in Language, Literature, and Civilization of Spain at Princeton University. He specializes in modern and contemporary Spanish America and has directed Princeton's Latin American Studies Program since 2008. Among other works he has published Mexican Heterodoxies: A Conversed Anthology (2006), The Arts of the City: Essays on the Capital's Visual Culture (2010), and Proust's Latin Americans (2014).

Mario Vargas Llosa (Arequipa, Peru, 1936) won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the author of plays and essays such as: The Perpetual Orgy, The Truth of Lies, The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and "Les Mis rables", In Praise of Reading and Fiction, and Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society; memoirs like A Fish in the Water; short stories and novels such as: The Time of the Hero, The Green House, Conversation in the Cathedral, Captain Pantoja and the Special Service, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The War of the End of the World, The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, Who Killed Palomino Molero?, The Storyteller, The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto, The Feast of the Goat, The Way to Paradise, The Bad Girl, The Dream of the Celt, The Discreet Hero, and Five Points, among others. He has been awarded the most prestigious literary awards, among them the Cervantes Prize, Prince of Asturias, the PEN/Nabokov Award, and the Grinzane Cavour Prize.