The Temptation of the Impossible
The Temptation of the Impossible (Spanish: La tentación de lo imposible, 2004) is a book-length essay by Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa which examines Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.
An English translation was published in 2007.[1]
Reviews
- Robb, Graham (June 28, 2007). "In his nightmare city". The New York Review of Books. 54 (11): 52–54.
References
- ^ Vargas Llosa, Mario. The temptation of the impossible : Victor Hugo and Les Misérables. Translated from the Spanish by John King.
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Works by Mario Vargas Llosa
- The Time of the Hero (1963)
- The Green House (1966)
- Conversation in the Cathedral (1969)
- Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1973)
- Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977)
- The War of the End of the World (1981)
- The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (1984)
- Who Killed Palomino Molero? (1986)
- The Storyteller (1987)
- In Praise of the Stepmother (1988)
- Death in the Andes (1993)
- The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (1997)
- The Feast of the Goat (2000)
- The Way to Paradise (2003)
- The Bad Girl (2006)
- The Dream of the Celt (2010)
- The Discreet Hero (2013)
- The Neighborhood (2016)
- Harsh Times (2019)
- The Cubs and Other Stories (1959)
- The Basis for Interpretation of Rubén Darío (1958)
- The Perpetual Orgy (1975)
- The Temptation of the Impossible (2004)
- A Writer's Reality (1991)
- A Fish in the Water (1993)
- The Milestones and the Stories of Greatest Literary Works (1995)
- Making Waves (1997)
- Letters to a Young Novelist (1997)
- The Language of Passion (2001)
- Tune in Tomorrow (film; 1990)
- The Feast of the Goat (film; 2005)
