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The Storyteller

Mario Vargas Llosa

Paperback | Pages: 245 pages

Rating: 3.72 | 3850 Users | 347 Reviews

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Title	:	The Storyteller
Author	:	Mario Vargas Llosa
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 245 pages
Published	:	November 3rd 2001 by Picador USA (first published 1987)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. Spanish Literature. Literature. Cultural. Latin American

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At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer happens upon a photograph of a tribal storyteller deep in the jungles of the Amazon. He is overcome with the eerie sense that he knows this man...that the storyteller is not an Indian at all but an old school friend, Saul Zuratas. As recollections of Zuratas flow through his mind, the writer begins to imagine Zuratas's transformation from a modern to a central member of the unacculturated Machiguenga tribe. Weaving the mysteries of identity, storytelling, and truth, Vargas Llosa has created a spellbinding tale of one man's journey from the modern world to our origins, abandoning one in order to find meaning in both.

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Original Title:	El hablador
ISBN:	0312420285 (ISBN13: 9780312420284)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Peru (Perú),1958(Peru)

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First thing to say is you won't understand the novel until you understand that Tasurinchi is not a name, or not only a name, but is used to refer to the Machiguenga's creator God, as well as any respected male in the community, even to oneself. It's in fact the only thing close to a name used in the stories of the tribe so its frequent usage gives a sense of a single community organism sharing knowledge and even sharing reborn soulsI normally read a novel as a story, rather than hunting for

i spend much time creating my own right-to-exist argument for modern civilization. can anything justify the horrors we've inflicted on the globe, on one another, on the animals? doubt it. but nobody is better. ain't no noble savage. ain't nothing. just the least of all evils. and we might be it. pathetic, huh? in feast of the goat and war of the end of the world vargas llosa lays down the evil and stupidity and fanaticism that finds its permanent residence in the human heart. similarly, the

Beautifully written, with themes that I believe will continue to resonate for a long time. I loved the use of multiple narrative modes, the mystery of the college friend who disappears and then reappears in the deep, magical jungle as a tribal storyteller. Asks some tough questions about modernization of ancient cultures--the benefit & the cost. Llosa's descriptive abilities are excellent. He's been a big influence on my own writing. I am currently re-reading this book--slowly, to savor the

After an intriguing opening the novel divides into two strands. One concerns the narrators search for an old friend, perhaps now in Israel, who he suspects spent time with a native tribe in Peru. The other is several mythological tales about the origins of the tribe. The narrative is flat and appears to lack relevance at times; the mythological tales are quite abstract, almost dreamlike. I can appreciate that for many this is a classic novel, but personally I found it hard to read and less

This is the seventh MVL novel Ive read, and yet such is the mans originality that I never know what to expect. In this one we have an unnamed narrator from Lima, telling the story of his friend Saúl Zuratas, who develops an intense interest in, and becomes a passionate defender of, Amazon Indian tribes. In particular Zuratas becomes immersed in the culture of a people called the Machiguenga, who live in the Peruvian Province of Madre De Dios. The time setting stretches from the 1950s to the

http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/im... Subject: " story teller "the ultimrte tribute you can pay to a culture is to adopt and embrace it unconditionallyhere is a NY Times review without giving away too much of the suspenseful conclusion of the bookoh, a diferent book cover from an earlier publication - awesome !!Feeling the Hot Breath of Civilization By URLSUAL K. LE GUIN --------------------------------------------------------------------------------THE STORYTELLER By Mario Vargas Llosa.

A somewhat uncomfortable and multilayered take on anthropology and the search for identity in the modern world. A sad book because history has subsumed prehistory and moves only in one direction.Vargas Llosa is a brilliant and clear-eyed novelist, yet the three longish chapters that tell the story being told by the storyteller are not easy to read. They are presented in a narrative style appropriate to a primitive Amazonian tribe and one must read them slowly to begin to pick out all the threads