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Letters to a Young Novelist by Mario Vargas Llosa is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Letters to a Young Novelist about?

The Nobel Prize–winning author's classic on the craft of novel writing “distills [the great works] brilliantly, revealing an architecture to their greatness” (The Washington Post Book World). In Letters to a Young Novelist, Mario 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—including Borges, Bierce, Céline, Cortázar, Faulkner, Kafka, Robbe-Grillet and others—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.

Who reads Letters to a Young Novelist?

Author

Mario Vargas Llosa

Publisher

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312421724

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.84 / 5 (22 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14