by Mario Vargas Llosa · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420464305
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«La verdad de las mentiras» is the essay by Mario Vargas Llosa published by Alfaguara in paperback (316 pages, in Spanish).
Mario Vargas Llosa analyses great novels of the 20th century, such as «Lolita», «Muerte en Venecia» and «El tambor de hojalata», to show how fictions expand our vital experience. The book includes a prologue on the meaning of fiction and an epilogue in which he reflects on the power of literature and its function in the contemporary world.
The book belongs to Alfaguara's Hispánica collection.
Recommended for readers interested in literary criticism, in the work of Mario Vargas Llosa, or in the debate on the value of fiction.
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".
