Conversacion En Princeton /A Master Class about Current Events and the Craft of a Novelist by Nobel Prize Winner Mario Vargas Llosa.

Durante un semestre de 2015 Vargas Llosa impartio un curso en la Universidad de Princeton. En el converso con los alumnos sobre literatura y actualidad, e hizo, junto con ellos y con Ruben Gallo, director del Programa de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la universidad, un analisis 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 construccion de sus novelas. Pero tambien ofrece un analisis del momento actual. Es especialmente conmovedora la charla con Philippe Lancon, periodista de Charlie Hebdo que sobrevivio al atentado islamista perpetrado contra el semanario satirico en 2015.

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

Ruben Gallo es profesor de Lengua, Literatura y Civilizacion de Espana 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 antologia 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, Peru, 1936), premio Nobel de Literatura 2010. Es autor de piezas teatrales, estudios y ensayos (La orgia perpetua, La verdad de las mentiras, La tentacion de lo imposible, El viaje a la ficcion y La civilizacion del espectaculo), memorias (El pez en el agua), relatos y novelas: La ciudad y los perros, La casa verde, Conversacion en La Catedral, Pantaleon y las visitadoras, La tia Julia y el escribidor, La guerra del fin del mundo, Historia de Mayta, Quien mato a Palomino Molero?, El hablador, Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto, La Fiesta del Chivo, El Paraiso en la otra esquina, Travesuras de la nina mala, El sueno del celta, El heroe discreto, Cinco Esquinas, etc. Ha obtenido los mas importantes galardones literarios, entre ellos el Premio Cervantes, el Principe 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 Ruben 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 Lancon, 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 Miserables," 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.