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Vargas Llosa, Mario (translated by Helen R. Lane]: The Perpetual Orgy - Flaubert and 'Madame Bovary' NY Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1986
ISBN: 0-374-23077-3 Fine in Fine Dust Jacket Dust Jacket Design By Cynthia Krupat

xii, 244pp. Brown quarter-cloth, green/gray paper boards, gilt spine lettering, cream endpapers. Dust jacket price 17.95. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to first blank page. "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. "Vargas Llosa begins by explaining the special meaning Madame Bovary has for him. Then he deals with the story the novel tells and "the sources it uses, the way in which it transforms itself into time and language." Here he examines the "added element" Flaubert joined to his perceptions of realityfor example, his humanizing of objects, his obsession with pairs, and his manipulation of fictional time and narrative. Finally, focusing on such issues as the antihero and interior monologue, the author discusses the place of Madame Bovary in the development of the modern novel. This knowledgeable and highly readable book may not break any new scholarly ground but is valuable as an intelligent introduction and personal appreciation by an important novelist." - Richard Kuczkowski, Library Journal. Book is in fine condition, appears unread [hint of age-toning to dust jacket edges, insignificant crease to front flap]. No remainder markings. Signed by Author First Edition Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Vargas Llosa, Mario (Edited, with an Introduction By Myron I. Lichtblau]: A Writer's Reality, Syracuse, New York Syracuse University Press 1991
ISBN: 0-8156-0253-7 Fine in Fine Dust Jacket Dust Jacket Photograph By Abe Franjndlich/Sygma; Book Design By Victoria M. Lane

xxii, 170pp. Gray cloth, silver gilt spine lettering, red endpapers. Dust jacket is unpriced [not clipped]. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to half-title page. "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. Based on lectures given by the author at Syracuse University in March and April 1988 during his time as the Jeanette K. Watson Distingusihed Professor in Humanities. "In this revealing examination of the art of fiction writing, the well-known Peruvian novelist discloses his personal vision of his craft. Based on a series of lectures delivered at Syracuse University, these eight essays delve into what Vargas Llosa sees as a writer's raison d'etre: the transformation of lies into truth. He begins by praising Borges's contribution to Latin American literature, then chronicles the development of fiction as filtered through the history of Peruvian culture; the remaining six essays document the process of fiction writing in six of his novels. Readers will appreciate this frank approach, which provides valuable insight into the work of an artist." - Mary Ellen Beck, Library Journal. Book is in fine, unblemished, unread condition. No remainder markings. Signed by Author First Edition Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Austin, Reid Stewart; Hugh Hefner, Foreword. Alberto Vargas Works from the Max Vargas Collection. New York U. S. A.: Bulfinch Press, 2006.
Archival coated paper full color Fine collectable 1stEd as shown, color illus boards & matching unclipped dj protected under new mylar, rouge endpapers, Gift Qual; no names, not marked-in, underscored, clearance or discard. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours.; 0.8 x 13 x 10.1 Inches; 144 pages; Library Journal:Locked in litigation for over a decade, Alberto Vargas's drawings finally have been cleared for publication in this glossy homage to the ultimate Playboy illustrator. Any book with a foreword by Hugh Hefner and text by Playboy art director Austin wears its pedigree on its sleeve; its pages are indeed titillating if lacking any substantive analysis. One would be hard-pressed to find a more gracefully produced book of magazine illustrations featuring women wearing heels and transparent tops (if they wear anything at all). Austin's essay is equally gauzy, tracing Vargas's childhood in Peru and his work for the Ziegfeld Follies, Esquire, and, ultimately, Playboy magazine, only occasionally alighting on such factual tidbits as the introduction of pubic hair in Playboy (1972). The main attraction is surely Vargas's voluptuous women. They vamp through the years and pages with unchanging proportions and airbrushed perfection, never questioning the fantasy they perpetuate. For special-interest collections.-Prudence Peiffer, Cambridge, MA Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information. BiographyReid Stewart Austin is the author of Alberto Vargas: The Authorized Biography (1978) as well as Varga: The Esquire Years (1987), The Classic Pin-up Art of George Petty (1998), and several articles on Vargas for Playboy and other national magazines.. 0821257927.

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Vargas Llosa, Mario (translated by Edith Grossman]: The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto - A Novel, NY Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1998
ISBN: 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

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 AUTHOR to first blank page. "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. Book is in fine, unblemished, unread condition. No remainder markings. Signed by Author First Edition Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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