Aberbach, David, viii, 212, 217; Surviving Trauma: Loss, Literature, and Psychoanalysis, viii
“abuelo, El,” 19
Adán, Martín, 151–152; La casa de cartón, 151
Alegría, Ciro, 5, 6; El mundo es ancho y ajeno, 6
Aleixandre, Vicente, vii
Alonso, Dámoso, 124
Alvarado, Velasco, 71
Ángel Asturias, Miguel, vii, 25, 150–151; El Señor Presidente, 151
Angélico, Fra, 75
Bacon, Francis, 75; Cabeza I, 75
Bader, Malcom, xi
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 152, 221; The Dialogic Imagination, 221
Balzac, Honoré de, 51–52, 67, 188, 197
Barcha, Mercedes (García Márquez’s wife), 44
Barne, Julian, 167; Flaubert’s Parrot, 167
Barral, Carlos, 25
Bass, Arnold, xi
Baudelaire, Charles, 150, 221; Baudelaire: Selected Poems, 221; “The Painter in Modern Life,” 150
Baudillard, Jean, 163–164
Bedoya, Rosario de, x
Béjar, Héctor, 34; Peru, 1965: Notes on a Guerilla Experience, 221
Belaúnde Terry, Fernando, 34, 62, 71
Bell Villada, Gene, 100, 137, 212, 216, 218, 225; Gabriel García Márquez: The Man and His Work, 137, 218; “The Inventions and Reinventions of Mario Vargas Llosa,” 212, 225; “Sex, Politics, and High Art: Vargas Llosa’s Long Road to The Feast of the Goat,” 216
Benavente, Jacinto, vii
Bioy Casares, Adolfo, 140; La invención de Morel, 140
Birns, Nicholas, viii; Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics (coeditor), viii, 216, 220, 222, 225
Bolaño, Roberto, 115, 201; 2666, 115, 201
Boll, Heinrich, 76
Booker, Keith, 167–168, 219, 221; Vargas Llosa among the Postmodernists, 219, 221
Boom (of the 1960s), viii, 3, 18, 25, 32, 34–38, 44–46, 51, 74, 91, 113, 118, 122, 126, 143, 152, 186, 191, 200–201, 212–214, 220, 222, 224, 226
Borges, Jorge Luis, 25, 61, 74, 92, 125, 127–128, 140; The Circular Ruins, 165; Ficciones, 140, 151, 164–166, 187, 214–215; El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan, 165
Boucher, François, 75
Buell, Lawrence, 134, 144, 218–219, 221, 228; The Environmental Imagination 134, 219, 221; “Introduction: In Pursuit of Ethics,” 225; Lady Chatterley’s Lover, 188; Sons and Lovers, 188–189; Women in Love, 188–189
Cabrera Infante, Guillermo, 166, 222; Tres Tristes Tigres, 166
Calvino, Italo, 74
Camus, Albert, 19, 24, 42–43, 76, 175; The Fall, 42
Carpentier, Alejo, 25, 45, 150–151, 214
Cartas a un joven novelista, 183, 209, 215
casa verde, La, viii, 7, 9, 13, 19, 20–21, 27–31, 33, 37, 41, 43, 47–48, 59, 61–62, 64, 67, 69, 79–80, 91, 93, 95–97, 104, 108–111, 113–116, 118, 121, 132, 135–136, 140–142, 144–145, 148–154, 156–158, 160, 165–166, 191, 199–200, 202
Castellet, José María, 25
Castro, Fidel, 24, 33, 45–46, 77, 133
Castro-Klarén, 69, 214, 222; Understanding Mario Vargas Llosa, 214, 222
Catholic Church, 8, 16, 112, 121
Cervantes, Miguel de, 122–123, 177, 217; Don Quixote, 123
Chesterton, G. K., 113
ciudad y los perros, La, viii, ix, 11, 22–27, 31, 33, 41, 43, 62, 64, 93, 95, 108, 122, 131–132, 134, 156, 158, 177, 191, 200, 207, 224
Cohn, Deborah, 94, 96, 215, 219, 225; “The Political Novels: The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta and Death in the Andes,” 215, 219, 225
Coindreau, Maurice, 196
Colegio de la Salle, 173
Conner, Steve, 151, 219; Postmodernist Culture: An Introduction to Theories of the Contemporary, 219
Conrad, Joseph, 20, 113, 116, 119, 181, 204, 216; Heart of Darkness, 204
Conversación en La Catedral, viii, ix, 14, 32, 36, 38–39, 42–43, 46–47, 56, 59, 61, 64–65, 88, 93, 97, 104, 115, 118, 132, 150–152, 157–158, 160, 163, 165, 200–201, 207–208, 213
Cortázar, Julio, vii, 24, 33, 50, 142, 149, 165–166, 186, 191–192, 197, 212, 214, 222; Almanach Hachette, 143; Rayuela, 37, 45, 135, 142–143, 149, 165
cuadernos de don Rigoberto, Los, x, 46, 87, 116, 121, 131, 163, 168–169, 207–208, 215
Cuban Revolution, 24, 44–46, 108, 143
Cueto, Alfonso, 176
Cullenberg, Stephen, xi
Culler, Jonathan, 92, 95, 215, 222; The Literary in Theory, 95, 215, 222
Cunha, Euclides da, 56, 59, 214, 221, 222; Rebellion in the Backlands, 56, 57, 214, 222
Cunningham Graham, Robert, 113
Darío, Rubén, 22
Davis, Mary, 43, 225; “Mario Vargas Llosa: The Necessary Scapegoat,” 213, 225
De Castro, Juan E., viii; Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics (coeditor), viii, 216, 220, 222, 225
demons (demonios), 23, 51, 112, 121, 128, 131, 133, 167, 183, 192, 198, 200
“desafío, El,” 19
de Silva, Alfonso, 24
de Szyszlo, Fernando, 75, 77, 171, 189
Donoso, José, vii, 44, 47, 212; Historia personal del “Boom,” 44
Dos Passos, John, 76
Dostoyevksy, Fyodor, 23
Dumas, Alexandre, 13, 23, 54, 58
Durán, Augusto, 2
Echegaray, José, vii
Eco, Umberto, 165
ecocriticism, 134–135, 137, 142, 217–218; in Cien años de soledad, 137; in Rayuela, 142; in Silent Spring, 217
Edwards, Jorge, 77
“Elogio de la lectura y la ficción,” 173, 226
Elogio de la madrastra, 46, 50, 74–75, 78, 87, 89, 121, 131, 163, 165, 168–169, 190, 207–208
Faulkner, William, 6, 15, 23, 26–28, 31, 33, 43, 46, 67, 69, 76, 89, 122, 149–150, 158, 172, 174, 178, 184, 187–189, 194–196, 217; Absalom, Absalom!, 6; As I Lay Dying, 198; Light in August, 196–197; Mosquitoes, 197; Sanctuary, 43, 196; The Sound and the Fury, 197; These Thirteen, 196; The Wild Palms, 184
Feal, Carlos, 219; Painting and the Page, 219
Fernando, prince of Portugal, 124–125
Ferreira, César, xi
fiesta del Chivo, La, ix, 57, 87–88, 91–93, 97–98, 100–102, 104, 110, 115, 118, 121, 148–150, 152, 160, 163, 178, 186, 200–201, 204, 207–208, 214
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 76
Flaubert, Gustave, 23, 222; Madame Bovary, 23, 222
Franco, Jean, 213; “Conversations and Confessions: Self and Character in The Fall and Conversation in The Cathedral,” 42, 92, 215
Frank, Arthur W., 216; The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illnesses, and Ethics, viii, 216, 222
French, Jennifer, 135, 218; Nature, Neocolonialism, and the Spanish American Regional Writers, 135, 218
Fresán, Rodrigo, 201; Mantra, 201
Freud, Sigmund, viii, 216; Beyond the Pleasure Principle, viii, 216
Fuentes, Carlos, vii, xi, 3, 16, 25, 55, 184, 186, 190–191, 193, 199–200, 212, 217, 219, 221, 224–225; La nueva narrativa hispanoamericana, 37, 219
Gallagher, David, 176
Gallegos, Rómulo, 37, 139; Doña Barbara, 139
Galsworthy, John, 113
Ganim, John, xi
García, Alan, 68, 71–73, 76, 176
García Márquez, Gabriel, vii, viii, 3, 35–38, 44–45, 47, 50, 74, 88, 92–93, 95, 98, 115, 120, 135–138, 140, 149–150, 152, 164, 166, 171–172, 186, 191, 193, 199, 201, 209, 212, 217–220, 222–224, 226; Cien años de soledad, 35, 38, 115, 135, 137, 138, 140, 149–150; La increíble y triste historia de la cándida eréndira, 47; One Hundred Years of Solitude, 164; El otoño del patriarca, 88
García Márquez: Historia de un deicidio, 44, 209, 212, 217
Garmendia, Salvador, 45
Gass, William H., 190–192, 220
Geisdorfer Feal, Rosemary, 168, 219, 222; Novel Lives: The Fictional Autobiographies of Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Mario Vargas Llosa, 222; Painting and the Page, 219
Georgetown University, 86
Ghezzi, María Carmen, x
Giner, Rosa, 124, 217, 223; Tirant lo Blanc (editor), 217, 223
Góngora, Luis de, 76
Griffin, Clive, 99, 215–216; “The Dictator Novel: The Feast of the Goat,” 216, 225
guerra del fin del mundo, La, 38, 50, 54–62, 64–65, 69, 93, 96–97, 100, 110, 115, 121, 132–133, 150, 152, 160, 162–163, 165, 199, 207–208, 213, 225
Guimarães, João, 136; Grande Sertão: Veredas, 136
Güiraldes, Ricardo, 37; Don Segundo Sombra, 139
Guzmán, Abimael, 72
Hablador, El, 19, 20, 50, 63, 65, 68–70, 74–75, 109, 122, 131, 134, 145–148, 207–208
Hehrman, Judith, viii, 216–217, 222; Trauma and Recovery, viii, 216
Heise, Ursula, 137, 218; “Local Rock and Global Plastic: World Ecology and the Experience of Place,” 218
Hernán, Vidal, viii
Herzberger, David, xi
Historia de Mayta, 9, 24, 34, 62, 65, 67, 97, 100, 131–134, 143–146, 148–149, 163, 165. 167, 169, 190, 207–208
Historia secreta de una novela, 37, 209, 211–212
Hugo, Victor, 12, 13, 17, 23–24, 79, 82–83, 95, 159, 187, 209–210, 215; Les Misérables, 12, 79, 82, 95, 149, 210
Huidobro, Vicente, 151
Hutcheon, Linda, 164–166, 219, 223; A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction, 164, 219, 223; The Politics of Postmodernism, 164
Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, 178, 183, 215
Jameson, Frederic, 151–152, 163–164, 166, 219, 223; The Political Unconscious, 152
Jaramillo, Darío, x
Jesus Christ, 124
“Joanot Martorell y el elemento añadido en Tirant lo Blanc,” 123
Johnson, Peter T., x
José María Arguedas, viii, 5, 70, 79, 80–82, 85, 209
Joyce, James, 76, 150, 152, 166, 198
Kafka, Franz, 150
Kathie y el hipopótamo, 63–65, 68, 212
King’s College, 38
Kristal, Efraín, viii, 80, 96, 107, 116, 214, 225; The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa (coeditor), 225; Temptation of the Word, 214
Leavis, F. R., 188
Leoncio Prado Military School, 11, 13, 19, 22–23, 25–26, 28, 71, 131, 149, 176
Leónidas Trujillo, Rafael, 9, 12, 87–88, 97–99, 118, 214
Lessing, Doris, 76
“literatura es fuego, La,” 34, 226
Lituma en los Andes, ix, 80, 91, 93–96, 100–101, 104, 120, 122, 131–132, 200, 207–208
Llosa, Patricia, x, 32–33, 36, 44, 55, 67–68, 71, 77, 79, 89, 171, 175, 180, 185–186, 194, 201, 203
Llosa Bustamente, Pedro, 3–4, 77
Llosa de Rivera, Belisario, 3–4
Llosa y Llaguno, Juan de la, 2–3
López Portillo, José, 95
Lynch, Benito, 135; El ingles de los huesos, 135
Lyotard, Jean-Francois, 163, 164, 219, 223; The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, 163
Mann, Thomas, 76
María Arguedas, José, 70, 80–81, 209
Mariategui, José Carlos, 16, 17, 35, 72, 223; Siete ensayos de interpretación de la realidad peruana, 17
Martorell, Joanot, 122, 123–127, 129, 149, 184–185, 209, 217, 223, 226; Tirant lo Blanc, 123, 217, 223
Matos Mar, José, 28
McMurray, George, 136–137, 217–218; Critical Essays on Gabriel García Márquez (editor), 217; Gabriel García Márquez, 217; The Role of Climate in Twentieth Century Spanish American Fiction, 218
McRobie, Angela, 166, 219; Postmodernism and Popular Culture, 219
Miller, Henry, 188
Mills, C. Wright, 152
Milofsky, David, 178
Miserachs, Xavier, 32
Morales Bermúdez, Francisco, 71
Moreira César, Colonel Antonio, 58
Muñoz Nájar, Lucía, x
Nabokov, Vladimir, 167; The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, 167
Neruda, Pablo, 92–93, 172; Canto General, 92
Nobel Prize for Literature, vii, x, 6, 50, 79–80, 89, 110, 151, 171, 175, 177–180, 186, 203–204
novela en América Latina, La: Diálogo, 36
Oquendo, Abelardo, 21; Literatura, 21
Oquendo de Amat, Carlos, 34
Ordaens, Jacob, 75
orgía perpetua, La: Flaubert y Madame Bovary, 23, 128, 209
Oveido, José Miguel, vii, x, 55, 176, 200, 211, 223, 225; “Conversación con Mario Vargas Llosa sobre La tia Julia y el escribidor,” 225; Mario Vargas Llosa: El escritor y la critica, 223; Mario Vargas Llosa: La invención de una realidad, vii, 211
Pacheco, José Emilio, 169; Morirás lejos, 169
Padilla, Herberto, 46
Pantaleón y las visitadoras, 38, 44, 46–51, 61–62, 64, 69, 87–88, 104, 107, 115–116, 121, 127, 132–133, 207–208, 217, 226
paraíso en la otra esquina, El, ix, 81, 84, 91–92, 101–104, 110–111, 117, 122, 134, 178, 182, 204, 207–208, 216
Pasternak, Boris, 76
Paz, Octavio, vii, 50, 192, 215
Pérez Galdós, Benito, 95
Petit, Juan, 25
pez en el agua, El, 80, 187, 209, 211–212
Pillicer, Joan, 124
Poma de Ayala, Guaman, 82
postmodernism, 54, 74, 92, 104, 119, 149, 163–169
Princeton University, x, 80, 177
Proust, Marcel, 150
Puig, Manuel, 166; La traición de Rita Hayworth, 166
Queen Mary University of London, 32
¿Quién mató a Palomino Molero?, 46, 50, 65, 67, 79–80, 87, 116, 121, 131, 207–208
Quiroga, Horacio, 135
Rabassa, Gregory, 44, 207, 222
Rama, Ángel, viii, 3, 34, 44, 56, 213
Revel, Jean François, 77
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 183
Rivera, José Eustasio, 135, 139; La vorágine, 135, 139–140, 147, 149, 224
Rivera Garza, Cristina, 201
Rodó, José Enrique, 110; Motivos de Proteo, 110
Rodríguez Monegal, Emir, 33, 44, 217; “Novedad y anacronismo en Cien años de soledad,” 217
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 67
Salas-Durazo, Enrique, xi
Salazar Bondy, Sebastián, 21, 25; “Mao Tse Tung between Poetry and Revolution,” 21–22
Sánchez, Nestor, 166; Siberia Blues, 166
Sánchez, Rafael, 166; La guaracha de Macho Gamacho, 166
Sanchez Cerro, Luis M., 7–9, 12
Sarduy, Severo, 166; Cobra, 166
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 15, 19, 23–24, 33–36, 42–43, 51, 81, 175, 198, 220; The Reprieve, 42
Schillinger, Liesl, 115, 116, 216; “Traitor, Martyr, Liberator,” 216
Schneider, Thomas, xi
Seix Barral, Víctor, 25
señorita de Tacna, La, 55, 63, 212
sexuality, 10, 11, 110, 111, 122, 117, 131–132, 137, 167, 168–169
Shaw, George Bernard, 113, 127
Skármeta, Antonio, 47
Soto, Hernando, 73, 193; El otro sendero, 73, 193
Souza, Raymond D., xi
Steinbeck, John, 76
Struebig, Patricia, 137, 218; “Nature and Sexuality in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude,” 218
sueño del celta, El, vii, ix, 20–21, 36, 81, 85–86, 91, 93, 109–111, 113, 115–119, 141, 148–150, 152, 160, 163, 177–178, 181–182, 186, 191, 200–201, 204–205, 207–208, 216, 219
Swedish Academy, vii, 173, 177–178, 205
tentación de lo imposible, La: Victor Hugo y Los Misérables, 12, 82, 209–210, 215
terra (land), 135–136
tía Julia y el escribidor, La, 166
Tittler, Jonathan, 144–146, 219; “Ecological Criticism and Spanish American Fiction,” 219
Tolstoy, Leo, 17, 23, 59, 149; War and Peace, 149
Torre de Babel, La, 55
Torres Bodet, Jaime, 151; Primero de enero, 151
Toscana, David, 201
total novel, 12, 38, 46–47, 58, 65, 69, 88, 93, 101, 110, 114–116, 121, 149–150, 152, 157, 160, 184, 201, 213
transculturation, viii
Travesuras de la niña mala, ix, 33, 87, 91, 104–105, 107, 109, 111, 115–116, 120–121, 178, 200, 204, 207–208, 215
Twain, Mark, 67, 127, 199, 217
University of Puerto Rico, 37
Ureta de Llosa, Carmen, 4
Ureta Llosa, Dora, 1, 4, 5–6, 10
utopía arcaica, La: José María Arguedas y las ficciones del indigenismo, 81–82, 209, 214
Valenzuela, Luisa, 47
Valverde, José María, 25
Vargas, Dora de. See Ureta Llosa, Dora
Vargas, Germán, x–xi
Vargas, Marcelo, 1
Vargas Llosa, Mario: academic work of, at Cambridge University, 51, 80; academic work of, at Complutense University, 22; academic work of, at Harvard University, 80; academic work of, at King’s College, 38; academic work of, at Queen Mary University of London, 32; academic work of, at Real Academia Española de la Lengua, 86; academic work of, at University of Puerto Rico, 38; academic work of, at Washington University, 36–37, 67, 190, 194, 199, 201–202; adolescent years of, 15–19, 22; break of, with the Left, 81, 133; and the concept of “communicating vessels” (vasos comunicativos), x, 69, 74, 93, 97–99, 101–104, 114, 118, 145, 162–163, 184, 220; divorce of, 32; education of, at Colegio San Miguel, 25–26, 28; education of, at Leoncio Prado Military School, 11–13, 15, 19–20, 22–23, 71, 131, 149, 176; early life of, 4–7, 9–13; early work of, while at school and university, 15; and fanaticism, 61–62, 96; and the free market economy, 50, 78, 193, 220, 225; and the Left, ix, 17, 22, 24–25, 34, 39, 45, 81, 104, 108–109, 113, 133; marriages of, 18, 32; narrative technique, 28, 31, 48, 56, 61, 102, 119, 123, 129–130, 155, 158, 189; Nobel Prize acceptance lecture of, 89, 117, 172–175, 210; and the Nobel Prize in Literature, vii, x, 6, 79–80, 89, 110, 117, 151, 171, 177–180, 186, 203–204, 215; presidential campaign of, 74, 78–79, 91, 206, 211; and socialism, 5, 72, 193
Vargas Llosa, Mario, themes of: the father, 62, 132; historiographic metafiction, 165; indigenous life, ix, 2, 5–6, 16–17, 20–21, 28–30, 62–63, 69–70, 72, 82, 85, 89, 94, 96, 114, 132, 135, 138, 141, 146–147, 154, 156, 174; machismo, 49, 157, 211; power, 45, 88, 98, 113, 118, 120, 132, 165, 211; rebellion, 14, 18, 56–57, 65, 100, 117, 133; reconciliation, 117, 216–217; social and political commentary, 49, 66, 71, 101, 105, 110–111, 119, 133–134, 139, 153, 157–158, 167–168, 173, 185; utopias, 81–86, 94, 101–105, 109–110, 121, 151, 170, 172, 182, 209, 214–217, 221; violence, 52, 58, 65, 80, 96, 100, 103–104, 107, 114, 123, 125, 130
Vargas Llosa, Mario, works of. See under titles of works
Vargas Llosa, Morgana (daughter of Mario Vargas Llosa), 44, 171, 214
Vargas Maldonado, Ernesto, 1
Vecellio, Tiziano, 75
Velasco Alvarado, Juan, 71, 105
Verne, Jules, 58
viaje a la ficción, El, 134, 209, 214–215
“Visita a Karl Marx,” viii, 3, 33, 44, 213
Von Hayek, Frederic, 55, 193; The Road to Serfdom, 55, 193
Von Humboldt, Alexander, 138–139, 218; Cosmos, 138–139; Personal Narrative, 138, 218; Viaje a las regiones equinocciales del Nuevo Continente, 138–139
Washington State University, x, 36–37, 199, 201–202, 213
Williams, Raymond, 150; The Politics of Modernism, 151
Woolf, Virginia, 76
Yáñez, Agustín, 151
Yeats, W. B. 113
Zalamea, Jorge, 35