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Vargas Llosa, Mario (translated by Edith Grossman]: The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto - A Novel, NY Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1998 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; sig.; 1. Ed. ISBN: 0-374-22327-0
0-374-22327-0 Fine in Fine Dust Jacket Dust Jacket Design By Susan Mitchell; Dust Jacket Art By Henri Gervex, 'Rolla'; Book Design By Jonathan D. Lippincott

First printing of Farrar hardcover edition. viii, 264pp. Black quarter-cloth, blue/gray paper boards, blue gilt spine lettering, black ink embossed front cover author initials. Dust jacket price 23.00. Signed by Vargas Llosa to title page. Book is in fine, unblemished, unread condition. No remainder markings. "Peruvian novelist, playwright, essayist, journalist, literary critic, one of the central writers in the Hispanic world. Vargas Llosa started his literary career in Europe, but most of his novels are set in Peru. From his first works, Vargas Llosa has used a wide variety of avant-garde techniques to create an aesthetic "double of the real world." Although Vargas Llosa has followed the tradition of social protest of Peruvian fiction exposing political corruption, machismo, racial prejudices and violence, he has underlined that a writer should never preach or compromise artistic aims for ideological propaganda. With Julio Cortazar, Carlos Fuentes, and Garcia Marquez, Vargas Llosa was among the most famous writers, whose aim was to revitalize the Latin American novel. Winner of Leopoldo Alas Prize (1959), Romulo Gallegos Prize (1967), National Critics' Prize (1967), Peruvian National Prize (1967), Critics' Annual Prize for Theatre (1981), Prince of Asturias Prize (1986) and Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1994)." - Books and Writers. "Deliciously challenging, delightfully lurid, the latest novel by the famous Peruvian writer tempts the reader into the world of a married couple from Lima, the successful Don Rigoberto and his second wife, Lucrecia. Husband and wife, as the story opens, are separated; a sexual interlude took place between Don Rigoberto's young son and Lucrecia, and for allowing it to happen, Lucrecia had to move out of the house to live on her own, by her husband's demand. Rigoberto has a vivid imagination, and in his wife's absence--to keep loneliness at bay because of her absence--he inscribes in notebooks, by night, his remembrances and fantasies and wishes vis-a-vis her sexual abilities. His young son, at the same time, visits Lucrecia regularly to attempt a reconciliation between father and stepmother. What is real about this couple's lives and what is simply embroidery by Don Rigoberto in his notebooks? Vargas Llosa makes certain the reader is not always certain. This is not a novel of great narrative drive; its strengths are its lush language and suitably languid tone in depicting the satisfaction of sexual congress." - Brad Hooper, Booklist. Signed by Author First Edition Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; First Edition

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Vargas Llosa, Mario (Translated by Alfred MacAdam). THE REAL LIFE OF ALEJANDRO MAYTA Rare Fine Copy of the Limited Edition. New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986.
Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 310 pages. Fine. The author's seventh novel. One of Mario Vargas Llosa's finest achievements. Limited Edition of 125 numbered and signed copies. One of only two Limited Editions published by FSG of Vargas Llosa's books thus far (the other is "The War of The End of The World"), the limitation is among the smallest there is, considering it is a major work by a major writer. The edition is now very rare. An austerely elegant production by Farrar, Straus & Giroux: Regular-sized volume format. Brown cloth boards with gilt titles embossed on the spine, as issued. Text by Mario Vargas Llosa. Cream hard board slipcase. Printed on archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Mario Vargas Llosa's astute psychological portrait of a modern revolutionary in the form of an account by a former friend to understand him. Through this prism, the novel examines the long, violent, and painful history of Latin-American politics. Mario Vargas Llosa is the writer/intellectual/philosopher par excellence among the Latin-American geniuses of the so-called Boom: He refuses to be categorized, labeled, and reduced by ideology, whether it is Fascist conservatism, political correctness, or Leftist academicism, what he has condemned as "authoritarianism of the Left and the Right". He considers himself an heir to the great European cultural tradition yet his work is firmly grounded in Latin America's (not just his native Peru's) history and mythology. His aesthetics and literary practice - Vargas Llosa has embraced and appropriated every literary genre - prompted Roberto Bolano, his greatest successor, to consider him an inescapable influence, among a handful of others, on contemporary Latin-American literature. That is to say, to be a Latin-American writer is to become a Classical master of language and a Modernist artist, writing in language of the highest quality and reinventing literary form and convention at the same time. Literary genres are inventions of a particular culture's idea of imagination and storytelling, "templates" that Vargas Llosa transforms into "poetic tales" (in Harold Bloom's brilliant phrase). "He has helped evolve the art of the narration" (Nobel Prize Committee). "Literature shouldn't be secluded, provincial, or regional. It should be universal even if it has deep roots in one place" (Mario Vargas Llosa). A "must-have" edition for Mario Vargas Llosa collectors. <b><i> This copy is one of the Limited Edition, indicated as such on the Front Limitation Page, and it is very prominently and beautifully signed in blue pen by Mario Vargas Llosa. This title is now highly collectible. This is the only such copy of the Limited Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Among "Boom" writers, Mario Vargas Llosa has been grossly under-valued for the longest time even though he rarely does public signings. The collectible value of his books will not only keep but keep going up. A very rare signed copy thus. </b></i> Winner of the Cervantes Prize, awarded to the greatest living writers in Spanish by the Spanish Government, in 1994. Winner of the Jerusalem Prize in 1995. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. One of the greatest living writers. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARIO VARGAS LLOSA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374247765. Signed by Author.

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Vargas Llosa, Mario (Translated by Helen Lane). AUNT JULIA AND THE SCRIPTWRITER Rare Signed Copy of The First American Edition. New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982.
Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 375 pages. Fine in Fine dust jacket. The author's fifth novel. One of the greatest novels of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a very small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Mario Vargas Llosa's comic masterpiece. "Uses counterpoint, paradox, and satire to explore the creative process of writing and its relation to the daily lives of writers. One half of the story is an autobiographical account of an aspiring writer named Marito Varguitas, who falls in love with Julia, the divorced sister-in-law of his Uncle Lucho. Marito's success at writing and romance contrasts with the fortunes of Pedro Camacho, the protagonist of the other half of the story, who is a devoted but declining author of radio soap operas" (Publisher's blurb). Mario Vargas Llosa is the writer/intellectual/philosopher par excellence among the Latin-American geniuses of the so-called Boom: He refuses to be categorized, labeled, and reduced by ideology, whether it is Fascist conservatism, political correctness, or Leftist academicism, what he has condemned as "authoritaria nism of the Left and the Right". He considers himself an heir to the great European cultural tradition yet his work is firmly grounded in Latin America's (not just his native Peru's) history and mythology. His aesthetics and literary practice - Vargas Llosa has embraced and appropriated every literary genre - prompted Roberto Bolano, his greatest successor, to consider him an inescapable influence, among a handful of others, on contemporary Latin-American literature. That is to say, to be a Latin-American writer is to become a Classical master of language and a Modernist artist, writing in language of the highest quality and reinventing literary form and convention at the same time. Literary genres are inventions of a particular culture's idea of imagination and storytelling, "templates" that Vargas Llosa transforms into "poetic tales" (in Harold Bloom's brilliant phrase). "He has helped evolve the art of the narration" (Nobel Prize Committee). "Literature shouldn't be secluded, provincial, or regional. It should be universal even if it has deep roots in one place" (Mario Vargas Llosa). The basis of the fine (and underrated) film adaptation, "Tune In Tomorrow", written by the British novelist William Boyd and directed by Jon Amiel, with Barbara Hershey, Keanu Reeves, and Peter Falk. A "must-have" title for Mario Vargas Llosa collectors. <b><i> This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the half-title page by Mario Vargas Llosa. This title has been out-of-print as a hardcover for thirty years and is now highly collectible. This is one of very few signed copies of the First American Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Among "Boom" writers, Mario Vargas Llosa has been grossly under-valued for the longest time even though he rarely does public signings. The collectible value of his books will not only keep but keep going up. A rare signed copy thus. </b></i> Winner of the Cervantes Prize, awarded to the greatest living writers in Spanish by the Spanish Government, in 1994. Winner of the Jerusalem Prize in 1995. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. One of the greatest living writers. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARIO VARGAS LLOSA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374106916. Signed by Author.

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Vargas Llosa, Mario (Translated by Natasha Wimmer). LETTERS TO A YOUNG NOVELIST Rare Signed And Inscribed Copy of The First American Edition. New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002.
Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 136 pages. Fine in Fine dust jacket. The author's collection of essays in the epistolary mode. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original as part of "The Art of Mentoring" Series. Presents Mario Vargas Llosa's eleven letters to a generalized interlocutor. "The literary vocation is not a hobby, a sport or a pleasant leisure-time activity. It is an all-encompassing, all-excluding occupation, an urgent priority, a freely chosen servitude that turns its victims (its lucky victims) into slaves". Yet Vargas Llosa is also somewhat wryly withholding: "Writing novels is the equivalent of what professional strippers do when they take off their clothes and exhibit their naked bodies on stage. The novelist performs the same acts in reverse". His examples of great novelists, whom he discusses while making larger philosophical points about concepts like style, time or representation, are magisterial in their breadth: Virginia Woolf and Henry James, John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway, Gustave Flaubert ("Madame Bovary" is a touchstone), Simone de Beauvoir and Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jorge Luis Borges and Miguel de Cervantes, among many others. Neither a survey course in what to read nor a practical guide to writing, the book is finally a meditation on writing and its relationship to life. "Good novels, great ones, never actually seem to tell us anything; rather, they make us live it, and share in it, by virtue of their persuasive powers" (Mario Vargas Llosa). One of the best books on the novel by a great living novelist. A "must-have" title for Mario Vargas Llosa collectors. <b><i> This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in blue pen on the front free endpaper by the author: "Best wishes, Mario Vargas Llosa". There is no recipient named. This title is now highly collectible. This is the only such signed and inscribed copy of the First American Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Among "Boom" writers, Mario Vargas Llosa has been grossly under-valued for the longest time even though he rare does public signings. The collectible value of his books will not only keep but keep going up. A rare signed copy thus. </b></i> Winner of the Cervantes Prize, awarded to the greatest living writers in Spanish by the Spanish Government, in 1994. Winner of the Jerusalem Prize in 1995. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. One of the greatest living writers. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARIO VARGAS LLOSA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374119163. Signed by Author.

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