Letters to a Young Novelist

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREMario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing reading and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers. Drawing on the stories and novels of writers from around the globe-Borges Bierce Céline Cortázar Faulkner Kafka Robbe-Grillet-he lays bare the inner workings of fiction all the while urging young novelists not to lose touch with the elemental urge to create. Conversational eloquent and effortlessly erudite this little book is destined to be read and re-read by young writers old writers would-be writers and all those with a stake in the world of letters.