
By Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a life of writing, analyzing, and inspiration into an important guide for aspiring writers. Drawing at the tales and novels of writers from round the globe-Borges, Bierce, Céline, Cortázar, Faulkner, Kafka, Robbe-Grillet-he lays naked the internal workings of fiction, all of the whereas urging younger novelists to not lose contact with the basic urge to create. Conversational, eloquent, and without problems erudite, this little ebook is destined to be learn and re-read by means of younger writers, outdated writers, would-be writers, and all these with a stake on this planet of letters.