This collection of essays associated with Mario Vargas Llosa’s visits to the City College of New York offers readers an opportunity to learn about his body of work through his own perspective and those of key fiction writers and literary critics.
 

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Raquel Chang-Rodríguez and Carlos Riobó

In Conversation with the 2010 Nobel Laureate
1. Genesis and Evolution of Captain Pantoja and the Special Services    
Mario Vargas Llosa
2. The Return of the Monsters    
Mario Vargas Llosa
3. From Miguel de Cervantes to César Moro    
Mario Vargas Llosa and Alonso Cueto

Life and Literature
4. Discreet and Injudicious Heroes in the Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa    
Efraín Kristal
5. A Life Worthy of a Novel    
J. J. Armas Marcelo
6. Vargas Llosa and Cervantes: Modern Knights    
Alonso Cueto

History, Authority, and Ideology
7. A Poetics of Freedom    
Carlos Franz
8. The Eye of the Beholder    
Mónica Lavín
9. Historical Fact/Historical Fiction in The Feast of the Goat    
Ángel L. Estévez

Other Tales
10. The Storyteller: Narrating Latin America from Europe    
Carlos Riobó
11. Rubén Darío through Mario Vargas Llosa’s Looking Glass    
Raquel Chang-Rodríguez
12. Mario Vargas Llosa at the New York Public Library    
Robert Dumont

Contributors    
Index    
 

Raquel Chang-Rodríguez is distinguished professor of Hispanic literature and culture at the Graduate Center and the City College of the City University of New York (CUNY), where she codirects the Cátedra Mario Vargas Llosa. Carlos Riobó is a professor of Spanish and comparative literature at the City College of New York, where he codirects the Cátedra Mario Vargas Llosa, and is the executive officer of the PhD program in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures at CUNY’s Graduate Center.