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Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the worlds most respected and widely read living writers. His work is marked by technical sophistication and by its alliance with a variety of trends in modern culture. To date little criticism of his work has made use of the important developments in literary theory in the past two decades. This book does so, analyzing Vargas Llosas place in modern and postmodern criticism.
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Vargas Llosa, Mario,--1936---Criticism and interpretation, Postmodernism (Literature)
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1994
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Vargas Llosa, Mario,--1936---Criticism and interpretation, Postmodernism (Literature)
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Vargas Llosa Among the Postmodernists
M. Keith Booker
University Press of Florida Gainesville Tallahassee Tampa Boca Raton Pensacola Orlando Miami Jacksonville
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Copyright 1994 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
All Rights Reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Booker, M. Keith. Vargas Llosa among the Postmodernists / M. Keith Booker. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8130-1248-1 1. Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- Criticism and interpretation. 2. Postmodernism (Literature) PQ8498.32.A65Z625 1994 863dc20 93-34788
The University Press of Florida is the scholarly publishing agency for the State University System of Florida, comprised of Florida A & M University, Florida Atlantic University, Florida International University, Florida State University, University of Central Florida, University of Florida, University of North Florida, University of South Florida, and University of West Florida.
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For Dubravka
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Contents
Acknowledgments
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Introduction Notes Toward the Postmodern: Redefining the Modernist Novel in The Green House
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One Postmodernist Parody and Modernist Exemplification: Captain Pantoja and the Special Service and The Green House
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Two Literature and Commodification: The Production and Consumption of Texts in Vargas Llosa's Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler
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Three Realism, Modernism, and Postmodernism: Three Versions of Apocalypse in The War of the End of the World
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Four Fiction and "Real Life": Vargas Llosa's The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta and Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
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Five Narrative, Metanarrative, and Utopian Fantasy in The Storyteller
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Six Detective Fiction, the Fantastic, and the Role of the Reader: Who Killed Palomino Molero? in Postmodernist Context
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Seven The Reader as Voyeur: Culture, Pornography, and Religion in In Praise of the Stepmother
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Postscript Commitment and Ambivalence
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Appendix Modernism and Postmodernism: Some Published Views
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Notes
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Works Cited
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Index
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Acknowledgments
I would like to thank my various teachers, colleagues, and students who contributed to the development of the ideas explored in this volume. Special thanks (as always) are due to Dubravka Juraga for the patience, support, advice, and inspiration she unstintingly supplied throughout the development of this project. Finally, I would like to thank the staff of the University Press of Florida, who did so much to make my manuscript a book. Heather Blasdell, Deidre Bryan, Larry Leshan, and Walda Metcalf made especially important contributions in this regard.
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Introduction Notes Toward the Postmodern: Redefining the Modernist Novel in the Green House
The attempt to characterize the movements known as "modernism" and "postmodernism" (and especially to distinguish between the two) has become a favorite pastime of literary and cultural critics of the past two decades or so. Even critics who bemoan the inadequacy of these terms or the invidiousness of categorization in general typically end up with the weary acceptance that we are stuck with both "modernism" and "post-modernism'' as labels and that we might as well make as much sense of the situation as we can.
I will seek in this study to make my own contribution to the various debates over modernism and postmodernism by focusing principally upon the latter but engaging the former as a prerequisite to any coherent understanding of the issues involved. I will seek a fresh perspective on postmodernism through a focus on the work of the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa. This emphasis on a single writer will, I hope, simplify some of the complexities that are involved in any attempt to characterize such broad cultural phenomena as modernism and postmodernism. Conversely, reading Vargas Llosa within the context of such broad issues of literary history should illuminate certain important aspects of his work that might otherwise not be clear. And Vargas Llosa is an ideal choice for such a focus, both because he is an important figure and because his work provides some special insights into the issues involved. For one thing (laying aside for a moment the question of just what "modernist" and "postmodernist" might mean), he begins his career in what appears to be a modernist vein, especially in the early novels
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