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(Mis)fortunes of a Novelist |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Ilan Stavans |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1989 |
| Size: 2,735 Words, 17,094 Characters |
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THE STORY TELLER
Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen Lane
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989
246 pp. $17.95
Some readers believe that immortality is attached to the work of art. For them the history of literature should not be the history of the authors and the accidents of their careers, but rather the history of their works. Others disagree and glorify the literary creators and not their works; immortality for them goes to the person, not the title. This latter group does not judge a book as an independent unit but as part of a lifetime achievement, and while good books are indeed the product of true genius, a genius, this group avows, is not born with an innate disposition or a written fate but with a prolonged and stubborn effort.
While commenting in 1980 on Mosq...
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... By now close to twenty of his titles have appeared, including novels, criticism, plays, and a volume of stories. If a genius is not born with an innate disposition or a written fate but with a prolonged and stubborn effort, Vargas Llosa's narrative power will return the moment his attention fully returns to his art and stops wandering elsewhere. Only then may this bad literary dream be over.
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