Letters to a Young Novelist by Mario Vargas Llosa | (PDF) Free Download

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREMario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers. Drawing on the stories and novels of writers from around the globe-Borges, Bierce, Céline, Cortázar, Faulkner, Kafka, Robbe-Grillet-he lays bare the inner workings of fiction, all the while urging young novelists not to lose touch with the elemental urge to create. Conversational, eloquent, and effortlessly erudite, this little book is destined to be read and re-read by young writers, old writers, would-be writers, and all those with a stake in the world of letters.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “A fascinating commentary…distills [great works] brilliantly, revealing an architecture to their greatness.” ―The Washington Post Book World“Ought to be dubbed the world’s cheapest MFA…Not just a book for writers, but one for readers, too…And for those who want to do more than read, [it] will instruct, illuminate, and most important, inspire.” ―St. Petersburg Times“[This book] will make you, if not a novelist, at least a subtler taster of novels.” ―San Antonio Express“Less a collection of dictums on the craft of the novel than a tribute to its formal complexities and potential through his admiring comments on works by the likes of Flaubert and Cervantes.” ―The New York Times Book Review About the Author Mario Vargas Llosa is Peru’s foremost author and the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1994 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world’s most distinguished literary honor, and in 1995 he won the Jerusalem Prize. His many distinguished works include The Storyteller, The Feast of the Goat, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Death in the Andes, In Praise of the Stepmother, The Bad Girl, Conversation in the Cathedral, The Way to Paradise, and The War of the End of the World. He lives in London.Natasha Wimmer is a translator who has worked on Roberto Bolaño’s 2666, for which she was awarded the PEN Translation prize in 2009, and The Savage Detectives. She lives in New York.

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⭐”Letters” is an adroitly written instruction book for beginning writers. Incorporating an imaginary correspondent, Mario Vargas Llosa writes a series of letters to a young protege sharing his years of literary experience and outlining the principles that make a novel. It is an interesting vehicle for an instruction book and it works. Most books of how to write are overloaded with superfluous detail and have the annoying tendency to be academic in the approach to writing. This book is breezy, conversational, loaded with brilliant insight and fun to read. Sighting loads of examples from classic and not so classic novels he brings to life essential topics of style, voice, time, point of view and other narrative tools that the masters of the novel have incorporated for hundreds of years.Many of the novelists Vargas Llosa sites for his many examples are unknown to me and he has roused my interest in reading their books. Alas, many of them are not translated into English (at least not that I can find on Amazon). But that does not diminish the satisfaction derived from reading this diminutive book. His best advice to any writer is to be a great reader. An example he has clearly followed himself.

⭐This is an elegant, erudite reflection on fiction writing as passion and philosophy. Like a caring, older companion, It offers the aspiring novelist much in the way of encouragement and inspiration. But be warned: it is not a how-to manual focusing on a workshop-type approach to producing fiction. Instead, it invites the reader on a journey through the often lonely and troubling pathways that all writers inevitably have to navigate. Stimulating and rewarding.

⭐The book written by Nobel laureate is not the true representation, but by a voracious reader who have delicate understanding of novel structure. And he doesn’t define the limits but the expanse.

⭐Except for Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style and Aristotle’s Poetics, I have found books on writing unhelpful and mind numbing.I wouldn’t put Llosa’s Letters to a Young Novelist in the same category as The Element of Style or Poetics, but it is excellent, and though I’m not young, I learned a few things and reminded of many other others.

⭐This is a fabulous reference go for defining what makes fiction successful or a total failure. Lovely examples, passages that explain narrative space and time we’ll.

⭐Want to learn to write, and do so from a Noble recipient? Here it is, the answer to your questions on how to become a master.

⭐I’ll never forget this book. It was only one phrase for me. Find yours.

⭐Excellent advice to new writers.

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