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«Éste no es un manual para aprender a escribir, algo que los verdaderos escritores aprenden por sí mismos. Es un ensayo sobre la manera como nacen y se escriben las novelas, según mi experiencia personal [...]. Se trata, pues, de un libro muy personal y, en cierto modo, de una discreta autobiografía.» Mario Vargas Llosa «El escritor siente íntimamente que escribir es lo mejor que le ha pasado y puede pasarle, pues significa para él la mejor manera posible de vivir.» Mario Vargas Llosa dirige a todos aquellos que tienen la ilusión de llegar a ser escritores unas magníficas reflexiones en forma epistolar acerca del arte de narrar. Cómo comenzar a cristalizar esa vocación en obras literarias, por dónde empezar esa aventura, de dónde salen las historias que cuentan las novelas... son algunas de las preguntas a las que el Premio Nobel de Literatura da respuesta en este libro, que se convierte así en una lección magistral del oficio de escribidor. «Detrás de esas aventuras ficticias que encienden la imaginación de los lectores y los conmueven, hay no solo intuición, fantasía, invención y una pizca de locura, sino también terquedad, disciplina, organización, estrategia, trampas y silencios, y una urdimbre compleja que levanta y sostiene en vilo la ficción.» No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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As would certainly be expected in a work such as this, the writing is sharp, crystal clear, and unambiguous. I marked many passages for their memorable and succinct content. For example, "All stories are rooted in the lives of those who write them; experience is the source from which the fiction flows."
Another gem: "Good novels--great ones--never actually seem to tell us anything; rather, they make us live it and share in it by virtue of their persuasive powers."
The author, Mario Vargas Llosa, supports the traditional expectations in published works: content that communicates both feelings and comprehensible message and is not impeded by the writing techniques of the author.
In my Goodreads reviews this year I have been especially critical of authors who eschew quotation marks, who wander aimlessly and confusingly through their storylines, who ignore the conventions of grammar and writing mechanics, and who focus more time on trying (unsuccessfully) to impress readers with their composition skills than to communicate with readers through their content. Everything I read in this book by Vargas Llosa supports my laments. ( )