by Mario Vargas Llosa · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466321464
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«El hablador» is the novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (272 pages, in Spanish).
The novel contrasts the world of modern societies with that of the Machiguenga Indians, who live in harmony with nature. Through the collective imagination of this people, Vargas Llosa explores the role of fiction in human life. The story follows Saúl Zuratas, a university student who becomes a «hablador», a storyteller who carries tales from village to village, and reflects on identity, culture, and the Westernization of indigenous peoples.
This edition belongs to the Formato Grande collection from Punto de Lectura, published in 2010. The cover shows an illustration of a human figure before an abstract urban scene.
Recommended for readers of Latin American fiction and followers of the work of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
