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Essay on "Letters to a Young Novelist" by Mario Vargas Llosa, a Primer for the Aspiring Novel Writer
Title: Essay on "Letters to a Young Novelist" by Mario Vargas Llosa, a Primer for the Aspiring Novel Writer
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Essay on "Letters to a Young Novelist" by Mario Vargas Llosa, a Primer for the Aspiring Novel Writer
Essay on Letters to a Young Novelist
by Mario Vargas Llosa
Student: Eric Kasum
Advisor: Rachel Pollack
Goddard College
Revised February 23, 2004 - Winter/Spring
"Fiction is a lie uncovering a deep truth ... Rebellion lies at the heart of every literary calling ... the desire to change reality, the questioning of real life, which is the secret raison d'être of literature ... They don't imagine themselves as plotting secretly to dynamite the world ... The difficult and thrilling moment …showed first 75 words of 2123 total…
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This one message, true wisdom in my opinion, is worth the whole book. It's changed the way I critique my own writing. It will, no doubt, flavor the way I judge all novels in the future. If I were able to engrave a single idea from Letters to a Young Novelist on the granite of my brain, it would be this: Hypnotize your reader. And be careful, always, not to break the spell.
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