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Mario Vargas Llosa. La tentacion de lo imposible: Victor Hugo y Los Miserables.(Book Review)

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From: World Literature Today
Date: 20050501
Author:Corral, Will H.

Mario Vargas Llosa. La tentacion de lo imposible: Victor Hugo y Los Miserables. Madrid. Alfaguara. 2004. 226 pages. 16.50 [euro]. ISBN 84-204-2733-0

FOR MANY YEARS, on a monthly basis, Mario Vargas Llosa has been publishing extensive articles about Western novelists in various journals. Before that, he wrote books on the novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Gustave Flaubert, and La verdad de las mentiras, a collection of long prologues to canonical novels whose second enlarged edition dates from 2002. These works, many uncollected articles from the sixties, and lately essays ...

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