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Letters to a Young Novelist Mario Vargas Llosa Natasha Wimmer Books

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Letters to a Young Novelist Mario Vargas Llosa Natasha Wimmer Books

"Letters" is an adroitly written instruction book for beginning writers. Incorporating an imaginary correspondent, Mario Vargas Llosa writes a series of letters to a young protege sharing his years of literary experience and outlining the principles that make a novel. It is an interesting vehicle for an instruction book and it works. Most books of how to write are overloaded with superfluous detail and have the annoying tendency to be academic in the approach to writing. This book is breezy, conversational, loaded with brilliant insight and fun to read. Sighting loads of examples from classic and not so classic novels he brings to life essential topics of style, voice, time, point of view and other narrative tools that the masters of the novel have incorporated for hundreds of years.
Many of the novelists Vargas Llosa sites for his many examples are unknown to me and he has roused my interest in reading their books. Alas, many of them are not translated into English (at least not that I can find on Amazon). But that does not diminish the satisfaction derived from reading this diminutive book. His best advice to any writer is to be a great reader. An example he has clearly followed himself.


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Letters to a Young Novelist Mario Vargas Llosa Natasha Wimmer Books Reviews

I'll never forget this book. It was only one phrase for me. Find yours.
Awesome writing tips for writers pursuing a novel of their own.
Excellent advice to new writers.
The book written by Nobel laureate is not the true representation, but by a voracious reader who have delicate understanding of novel structure. And he doesn’t define the limits but the expanse.
Except for Strunk and White's The Elements of Style and Aristotle's Poetics, I have found books on writing unhelpful and mind numbing.

I wouldn't put Llosa's Letters to a Young Novelist in the same category as The Element of Style or Poetics, but it is excellent, and though I'm not young, I learned a few things and reminded of many other others.
This is a fabulous reference go for defining what makes fiction successful or a total failure. Lovely examples, passages that explain narrative space and time we'll.
This is an elegant, erudite reflection on fiction writing as passion and philosophy. Like a caring, older companion, It offers the aspiring novelist much in the way of encouragement and inspiration. But be warned it is not a how-to manual focusing on a workshop-type approach to producing fiction. Instead, it invites the reader on a journey through the often lonely and troubling pathways that all writers inevitably have to navigate. Stimulating and rewarding.
"Letters" is an adroitly written instruction book for beginning writers. Incorporating an imaginary correspondent, Mario Vargas Llosa writes a series of letters to a young protege sharing his years of literary experience and outlining the principles that make a novel. It is an interesting vehicle for an instruction book and it works. Most books of how to write are overloaded with superfluous detail and have the annoying tendency to be academic in the approach to writing. This book is breezy, conversational, loaded with brilliant insight and fun to read. Sighting loads of examples from classic and not so classic novels he brings to life essential topics of style, voice, time, point of view and other narrative tools that the masters of the novel have incorporated for hundreds of years.
Many of the novelists Vargas Llosa sites for his many examples are unknown to me and he has roused my interest in reading their books. Alas, many of them are not translated into English (at least not that I can find on ). But that does not diminish the satisfaction derived from reading this diminutive book. His best advice to any writer is to be a great reader. An example he has clearly followed himself.